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Japan Considers Converting Ships to Aircraft Carriers
Popular Mechanics ^
| 12/2/6/17
| Kyle Mizokami
Posted on 12/28/2017 5:15:06 PM PST by iowamark
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:15:06 PM PST
by
iowamark
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:16:11 PM PST
by
iowamark
To: iowamark
Why not just buy one from us?
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:16:33 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: Brilliant
Doable? Gotta keep their shipbuilders working.
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:18:11 PM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Then buy the plans from us.
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:19:17 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:19:20 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: iowamark
Didn’t they already try this once? Like 7 or 8 decades ago?
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:24:00 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: iowamark
... and her sister ship Kaga...
A named carrier predecessor was sunk at The Battle of Midway.
Converted ships always have some drawbacks.
To: iowamark
Well, we had Jeep carriers, now it looks like Japan will have Nisan carriers.
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:28:26 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: Calvin Locke
“Converted ships always have some drawbacks.”
Looking at pictures of these ships they look like aircraft carries, even down to deck elevators.
I would bet that they could do a new construction of one or two that would make them more than conversions
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:30:08 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
To: iowamark
Why don’t they just construct a purpose-built aircraft carrier.
Converting a ship from one purpose to another involves too many compromises.
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:33:05 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: Calvin Locke
Forgive me for splitting semantic hairs but this might be more of an... adaptation, to a purpose quietly anticipated back to the drawing board, rather than a conversion of say, a cargo (for example a coal ship, i.e. the USS Langley) ship to another purpose.
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:33:49 PM PST
by
OKSooner
(Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life! - POTUS Donald J. Trump)
To: iowamark
Hmm, recall them doing that once before...
To: iowamark
They are already aircraft carriers, just helicopter carriers in name only to get around rules.
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:43:22 PM PST
by
Husker24
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:46:50 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
JS Kaga
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:48:19 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: WayneS
“In 2010, Forecast International reported that some design features were intended to support fixed wing aircraft such as the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II;[9] although neither the Ministry of Defense nor the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force have mentioned the possibility of introducing fixed-wing aircraft.
“The ship has neither a “ski-jump” nor a catapult, typical features for launching fixed-wing aircraft.[10] If Izumo-class ships were to operate fixed-wing aircraft, it would be limited to STOVL (short take-off, vertical landing) aircraft, such as the F-35B/”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JS_Kaga#Aircraft_carried
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:50:58 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Husker24
Do they have catapults and arresting gear?
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:52:28 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: iowamark
How many do we have in moth balls?
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:54:32 PM PST
by
DAC21
To: WayneS
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posted on
12/28/2017 5:56:08 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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