[FONT=宋体]Sorry, I find another date from internet, steel productions of Japan homeland were 2.05 millions tons in 1945,not 0.98 millions. Perhaps 2.05 millions were production of whole year. 0.98 mill[/FONT][FONT=宋体]i[/FONT][FONT=宋体]ons were until Aug[/FONT][FONT=宋体]u[/FONT][FONT=宋体]st of 1945.[/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]
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[FONT=宋体] Ok ,even use 0.98 millions ton steel ca[/FONT][FONT=宋体]l[/FONT][FONT=宋体]culate ,If I am a Japanese -I would:[/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]
[FONT=宋体]1 use 100 of thousands steel built 50000 75mm-150mm cannons and mortars.[/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]
[FONT=宋体]2 use 100 of thousands steel built rifles and machines-guns. Even on 10 kilograms make two rifles,1 tons steel can made 200 rifles. 100 of thousands of tons can 20 millions rifle.[/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]
[FONT=宋体]3 use 100 of thousands tons steel made tanks. Presume on tanks consume 20 tons steel. It can built 5000 tanks.[/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]
[FONT=宋体]4 use 50 of thousands tons steel made plane. On one plane consume 3 tons steel, It can bui[/FONT][FONT=宋体]ld[/FONT][FONT=宋体] 16666 planes.[/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]
[FONT=宋体]5 use 150 of thousands of tons built the transport submarine, not the battle subma[/FONT][FONT=宋体]r[/FONT][FONT=宋体]ines. Beca[/FONT][FONT=宋体]s[/FONT][FONT=宋体]se many transport ships were sunk by US in ww2.[/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]
[FONT=宋体]In contrast, use transport submarine is hard to discover by ally navy. more safe than transport ships. According to one submarine consume 2000 tons,it can be bu[/FONT][FONT=宋体]i[/FONT][FONT=宋体]l[/FONT][FONT=宋体]d[/FONT][FONT=宋体]s 75 submarines.[/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]
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[FONT=宋体]6 use 500 of thousands tons of steel manufacture armors,include shells,bullets,mine,water mines.In 1942, Japanese product 27 millions shells of cannon and mortars. [/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]
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[FONT=宋体]Of course, my ca[/FONT][FONT=宋体]l[/FONT][FONT=宋体]culation just best of condition merely.In fact ,in air st[/FONT][FONT=宋体]r[/FONT][FONT=宋体]ike condition and blocked by US navy, many factories of Japan were d[/FONT][FONT=宋体]e[/FONT][FONT=宋体]stroyed. In that condition, the Japanese hard to built 16666 planes in 1945.[/FONT][FONT=宋体][/FONT]