Japanese Heavy Cruiser TakaoA MOC by L. F. Braun, June-July 2002; rebuilt July-August 2005 (site currently under reconstruction) Takao in its rebuilt 2005 incarnation at Brickfest 2005, 14 August, 2005 Washington DC. OVERVIEW The heavy cruiser Takao was one of the mammoth Japanese "treaty cruisers" (or "A" class cruisers) built theoretically to the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty--10,000 tons but modified during const
