Riyatic battleship Taxata

Taxata was a Riyudic warship and the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Navy in the years leading up to !4th Riyudic-Kanashan War. Ultimately, out of the six planned Taxata-class battleships, only Taxata and TBD were completed. Taxata was laid down in 1937 at the Citana Naval Arsenal and launched in late 1939. She was commissioned in 1940 shortly after the outbreak of !4th Riyudic-Kanashan War. At the time of her construction, Taxata ' s primary armament of 18-inch guns were the largest ever mounted on a warship; they would remain so until well into the 1950s, when the naval arms race leading up to !WWII saw several nations develop equal or larger caliber guns. Although she was sunk during the !4th Riyudic-Kanashan War, her remarkable performance during her time in service reinforced the Maximum Caliber Theory developed by !Admiral and inspired the "Floating Castle" naval doctrine that led to the creation of the later TBD and TBD-class battleships.