A revived Eight-Eight fleet behind A-150 and B-64

The never-built A-150 and B-64 designs fit beside Yamato and earlier Japanese plans for a balanced capital-ship force. The proposed mix echoes the Eight-Eight programme's combination of solid battle-line ships with faster capital ships, forming a fleet system instead of a collection of unrelated super-battleships. This differs from Tirpitz's risk-fleet theory, which assumed threatened losses could keep a stronger enemy from fighting at all. Japanese planners expected the larger powers could still attack, but hoped the likely cost would deter them. Secrecy may also reflect fear that those powers would use another naval treaty to stop the programme before it matured. That defensive logic collapses when the same fleet is used for conquest: taking on larger powers offensively becomes what the video calls a "suicide pact." The distinction helps explain both the ships' political purpose and the strategy's limit.