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AU Profile: Later members of the Izumi-class also saw themselves being converted into two types of aircraft carriers during the 60s, the first being the 朱雀 or Suzaku-class. The design of this class followed in the footsteps of Japan's earlier fleet carriers, Akagi and Hiryu, and featured a port-side island, heavy batteries of anti-aircraft guns, and spacious hangar spaces.
Original battleship build can be found here.
Hybrid battleship-carrier build can be found here.
Flugdeckkreuzer build can be found here.
Or 'An answer to the question: What is unique about Japanese carriers?'
AU Profile: Later members of the Izumi-class also saw themselves being converted into two types of aircraft carriers during the 60s, the first being the 朱雀 or Suzaku-class. The design of this class followed in the footsteps of Japan's earlier fleet carriers, Akagi and Hiryu, and featured a port-side island, heavy batteries of anti-aircraft guns, and spacious hangar spaces.
Original battleship build can be found here.
Hybrid battleship-carrier build can be found here.
Flugdeckkreuzer build can be found here.
| Class Overview | |
| Name: | Izumi class (Suzaku sub-class) |
| Builders: | Yokosuka Dockyards Kure Naval Dockyards Sasebo Naval Dockyards Maizuru Naval Dockyards |
| Operators: | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| General Characteristics | |
| Type: | Aircraft Carrier |
| Length: | 451 m at water-line 463 m overall |
| Beam: | 51 m at water-line 75 m overall |
| Draught: | 10.5 m |
| Propulsion: | 24 improved Kampon boilers, driving 6 steam turbines six 4-bladed propellers, 5 m diameter |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots |
| Armament: | As built: 32 × 15 cm/60 Type 5 kai-ni guns (16 × II). 48 × 10 cm/65 Type 98 kai guns (24 × II). 76 × 5 cm/65 Type 5 guns (38 × II) |
Armor: | 650 mm side armor, inclined 15 degrees 300 mm armored deck |
| Aircraft carried: | 25 Yokosuka R2Y Keiun 50 Mitsubishi A8M Rikufū 50 Kyūshū J7W Shinden 50 Nakajima J5N Tenrai |
| Progress | 100% complete |
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I didn't realise. XD Gonna reenable them now :) And I'll mix new and old ideas together. I really want to move towards building some British-style ships, to be honest.
Sure Japanese-style ships are cool but if you keep working on the same one over and over again, you'll get bored quick.
And you also still have those projects that's under consideration.
Or, you can just build more fictional ships
And I'm actually in the process of bouncing between a few different projects, including a British super-battleship to rival my Izumi-class :)
And I will confess the projects under consideration is really just a list to remind me of interesting historical projects to use as reference material. I find I prefer to interpret a lot of designs rather than stick to them exactly - so you'll probably see a lot of 'inspired-by' ships, rather than any that fit that list exactly. (I only figured this out after building for a while after making the list, so I probably should change the description at some point)