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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 5th, 2012, 11:02 am
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SAWEET!!!! Been waiting for someone to draw her!

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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 6th, 2012, 2:40 pm
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Edited the Shichido-class BB. Thanks go to klagldsf for the aircraft used.

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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 6th, 2012, 6:15 pm
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And now, a carrier...but what a carrier! :D

In 1951, a sixth Shichido-class battleship hull was laid down, but construction was halted when the huge ship was completed up to the waterline. With no battleship components as yet installed, the Naval General Staff ordered her converted into a carrier. The result was a flattop so massive that twin-engine bombers, Japanese versions of Germany's Ar234 jet bomber, could be based on board. She was named Jinryu, or "King Dragon", which fit her perfectly. Her fighter pilots, who operated her Nakajima J9Y Kikka jet fighters (based off Germany's Messerschmitt Me262), were regarded as the elite of the IJN's fighter pilots.

Upon her commissioning in 1955, she was the largest warship in the world at a mind-boggling 1,290.5 feet (a record she holds to this day; not even the upcoming U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford-class super carriers will even come close to her length), eleven feet longer than her battleship half-sisters, and Vice Admiral Mitsuo Fuchida, Commander-in-Chief, 1st Air Fleet, naturally transferred his flag to her, hosting retired Fleet Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa aboard the same day. Her Japanese crew affectionately referred to her as idaina maruchitasuku "the great multi-tasker", due to her uniqueness at being the only straight-decked aircraft carrier in the world that could launch and recover aircraft at the same time. :shock: Her visit to the United States in 1956 - she made the newly-commissioned U.S.S. Saratoga (CV-60) seem small by comparison - earned her another nickname from the Americans: "Rodan", or "Winged Monster from the Sea".

Jinryu served the Imperial Japanese Navy for an unprecedented fifty years, finally being decommissioned in 2005. Her final active-duty service was the Tsushima Centennial Parade, in which the entire Combined Fleet - this also included any museum ship that was still seaworthy - steamed through Tsushima Strait, any surface ships firing full broadsides in salute. Emperor Akihito reviewed the fleet from the bridge of museum ship Yamato. Of course, there was no question that the world's largest aircraft carrier would be preserved as a museum ship, and she serves in that role to this day.

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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 6th, 2012, 6:41 pm
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:shock:

you are missiing a bunch of pixels at the bottom of the aftmost machine gun platform and a piece of the degaussing calbe a little to the right, but except those two tiny particulars.. well..

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you blown out my mind

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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 6th, 2012, 7:07 pm
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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 6th, 2012, 7:09 pm
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Fixed the issues BB1987 pointed out...didn't even notice them! *facepalm*

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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 6th, 2012, 7:30 pm
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Cool! (Although the undercarriage of these airplanes looks bit strange, but that's not a problem)


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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 6th, 2012, 7:46 pm
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Is "maruchitasuku" an attempt at Japanizing the word multi-tasker? Becouse if so, it should be Mâruchitâsukâ.(Sorry if that sounded douche-ish, it's not my intention.)
Regardless, it's a very cool ship!


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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 6th, 2012, 7:49 pm
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Fascinating...now, would the Japanese adopt the British inventions, such as the steam catapult, mirror landing system and - most importantly - the angled deck? I'd like to see a modernized version of this supercarrier then. And maybe it's me, but it seems that she has one deck less than the later Forrestals.

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Post subject: Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946Posted: September 6th, 2012, 7:52 pm
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Thanks, KHT...I'm working off Google Translator, so I didn't know for sure.

Beo, this puppy's so big I don't think angled decks are needed. :D

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