Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao, 1937-1946
Автор
Waldemar Goralski
, Andrzej Sobucki
, Janusz Skulski
Takao was the first of four Takao-class heavy cruisers designed to be an improvement over the previous Myoko-class design. The Myoko had proved to be unstable and required modifications, which were incorporated into the Takao design.