Editing Japanese battleship Musashi (section)

===Armour===
[[File:Musashi,Bridge.jpg|thumb|''Musashi's'' bridge in August 1942]]
The ship's waterline [[belt armor|armour belt]] was identical to {{ship|Japanese battleship|Yamato||2}}'s at {{convert|410|mm|in|1}} thick and angled outwards 20 degrees at the top.<ref name="USNTMJ">{{cite web|last1=US Naval Technical Mission to Japan|title=Ship and Related Targets: Reports of Damage to Japanese Warships|url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200H-0745-0786%20Report%20S-06-2.pdf|website=fischer-tropsch.org|publisher=United States Navy|access-date=26 December 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018053426/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200H-0745-0786%20Report%20S-06-2.pdf|archive-date=18 October 2013}}</ref> Below it was a [[strake]] of armour that ranged in thickness from {{convert|270|to|200|mm|in|1}} over the [[magazine (artillery)#Naval magazines|magazines]] and machinery spaces, respectively; it tapered to a thickness of {{convert|75|mm|in|1}} at its bottom edge. The [[deck (ship)|deck]] armour ranged in thickness from {{convert|230|to|200|mm|in|1}}. The turrets were protected with an armour plate {{convert|650|mm|in|1}} thick on the face, {{convert|250|mm|in|1}} on the sides, and 270 millimetres on the roof. The [[barbette]]s of the turrets were protected by armour {{convert|560|to|280|mm|in|1}} thick, and the turrets of the 155&nbsp;mm guns were protected by {{convert|50|mm|in|1|adj=on}} armour plates. The sides of the [[conning tower]] were {{convert|500|mm|in|1}} thick and its roof was 200 millimetres thick. Underneath the magazines were {{convert|50|to|80|mm|in|1|adj=on}} armour plates to protect the ship from [[naval mine|mine]] damage. ''Musashi'' contained 1,147 watertight compartments (1,065 underneath the armour deck, 82 above) to preserve [[buoyancy]] in the event of battle damage.<ref>Garzke & Dulin, pp. 100, 104, 122</ref>