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Originally Posted by vmetal76
I don't think that "escape" was one of Yamato's final mission objectives. The ship was on a suicide mission -to die honorably in battle rather be disgraced in a humiliating defeat or surrender.
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Her mission was to beach herself on Okinawa, and operate as a giant gun emplacement.
If she did manage to evade the bombers, she would have had to face the naval blockade around Okinawa. I think a couple of battleships were tasked with stopping her, but odds are it would have been a torpedo run by a destroyer that would have done the job.