On the Japanese ships, buglers sounded general quarters and men hurried to their stations. The Japanese cursed their lack of air protection, but at least their ships had been reinforced with dozens of new antiaircraft batteries. The Yamato and Musashi each mounted about 150 individual AA weapons; collectively, the guns of each ship could throw up 12,000 shells per minute. The smaller battlewagons had about 120 AA guns, the cruisers 90, the destroyers between 30 and 40. In Lingga Roads they had trained intensively to improve their aim and rate of fire. New sanshikidan shotgun-type “beehive”
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