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Imperial Japanase Navy

The Imperial Japanese Navy (大日本帝國海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun, "Navy of the Great Japanese Empire" or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, "Japanese Navy") was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1872-2021. It was the most powerful navy during the Pacific War, and even in all of World War II. Its air branch was one of the strongest naval air forces in existence at the time, and it could even be said that, made up of Japan's elite pilots, subjected to strict training and discipline, it was the most effective force.

During the first years of World War II and after the signing of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact (日ソ中立条約, Japan promised to help German plans in North Africa and was indispensable in the control of the Suez Canal as well as in its support to block supply convoys from the Indian colonies to the British, after the successful campaign against the British, Japan was submerged in an economic war against the United States that would end up closing the doors of American oil to the Japanese, without However, with a united Germany and Italy in North Africa, much of the oil found in the colonies of Egypt and Tunisia helped the Japanese empire to continue its expansion in the now free European colonies in South Asia and Oceania, Japan was needed to fight from China against its new war against the USSR, in which after a great German political war to "liberate the Soviet Union" all the allies of the Third Reich came together to destroy the Soviet Union, after 2 years and in a war on two fronts the Soviet Union disintegrates and the US refuses to leave neutrality, but after the invasion of Imperial Japan to the American Philippines, the eu declares war on japan and is plunged into a two-front war against the axis powers in which the american fleet is annihilated in the pacific by the now modernized imperial japanese fleet with the help of a battle group German expeditionary the "Hunter-carrier strike group (1941)" and a nuclear bomb like the one exposed in Stalingrad 1 year before, destroys part of the east coast of America and ends the Second World War.

The continuous modernization and versatility of Japanese naval engineering contributed to the production of units that were more advanced and better achieved both in design and in effectiveness compared to their counterparts in the rest of the world. The Japanese also developed the largest and most autonomous submarines of all the participants in World War II, scoring after the war important technological successes such as the I-400 submarines and the Shinano-class aircraft carriers now called Supercarriers that open the way to the which became known as the cold war between the thousand-year Reich and the imperial Japan of the rising sun, where the Third Reich disintegrated in 1989 and imperial Japan was involved in an internal war for the independence of its colonies in Asia, The world found a balance for a long time, which stopped military progress for a couple of years until, in the 90's, the United States began to increase its defense spending, which unleashed a global competition to see which would be the determining military power, where The Japanese fleet has played a decisive role in the projection of world power.

Looking forward to seeing the ships of this fleet!

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Japan, IJN Taiho (Dec-1948)



IJN Taihō (December of 1948)-AU

The Taihō (大 鳳 Great Phoenix) was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Built in the Kawasaki shipyards, its design was basically similar to that of the Shōkaku with a number of improvements, such as armored deck, improved antiaircraft fire, much larger island, 26 ° angled chimney to starboard, increased overall armor, and a whole series of improvements that were necessary by the Japanese naval engineering in aircraft carriers. It could be said that the Taihō was the best aircraft carrier in the world at the time of her launch.

The main distinguishing feature of this aircraft carrier was its armored deck, which would later also be applied to the Shinano, analogous to that of the Illustrious-class aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy. It was also innovative, and unique, as no other Japanese aircraft carrier used the system, its hull, which reached up to the very flight deck. In the rest of the Japanese aircraft carriers, the deck was partially suspended fore and aft above the hull.

In 1943 and after the successful campaign in Hawaii, the engineers began to work on what would be a dangle deck inclined at 45º that would allow the simultaneous landing and take-off of airplanes, increasing the take-off radius, but this only brought problems such as maintaining only an operational elevator and less traffic on deck, part of this was solved with the entry of jet aircraft that would take off much faster and with less career, in 1945 with the introduction of steam catapults on deck, these required a much smaller career of flight and the aircraft carrier achieved an average of 30 takeoffs and landings per hour.

IJN Hakuryuu (February of 1956)



By 1955 the complement of jet aircraft was more than established and with their entry into service most of the IJN Navy's aircraft carriers were in need of upgrades such as a larger runway, more elevators and more launch catapults. powerful as well as a more capable AA armament and a series of improvements in its power plant that would make the search and air control radars the most capable today.

Japan, Shinano-Class



Japan, Shinano-Class (1951)



Japan, Shinano-Class (1962)



The Shinano (信濃 named after a former Japanese province, now Nagano Prefecture) was the largest and highest displacement aircraft carrier in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was a conversion of a Yamato-class battleship, the keel of her was laid in the Yokosuka Arsenal which housed a large dry dock lengthened expressly for the project to 330 m long, the hull was assigned No. 110. The design contemplated a slight reduction in vertical armor (10-20 mm less) compared to its Yamato-class brothers. Its construction was subject to the development of future events, the battleship had a completion date for 1945 but in 1944 With the final advance of Germany on Soviet land and with Japan occupying Hawaii, the Shinano had to enter service quickly to be the support ship in the "Kyojin no Daraku" operation, between 1949 and 1951 it was decided to modernize these aircraft carriers for the use of jet aircraft such as those for Ki-201 jet fighters and KI-210 jet bombers (imported German AR-234s).
In 1958, faced with the new heavier and more modern fixed-wing fighters that the Shinano embarked wing contemplated, it was decided to keep the flight deck sloped and add more space for radar and air control equipment, greatly reducing the obsolete armament. of the 40's, by 1962 the aircraft carrier was the flagship of the first Japanese carrier strike group that would be considered until 1967 the largest aircraft carrier in the world before the arrival of nuclear-powered supercarriers.

Japan, Mitake-Class (1960)



IJN Mitake ( April 1961)

The IJN Mitake was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. its class, made up of six aircraft carriers, was named after the old mount mitake in Tokyo, The mitake class was the Navy's first complete class of "supercarriers", named for its then extraordinarily high tonnage (78,000 tons) 32% larger than the Taiho class, fully integrating Armored Flight deck, very large island, and most importantly, its extremely strong air wing (90 to 112 jets), compared to 80 for the Taiho class , The Mitake was launched on January 15, 1956 at the Mitsubishi shipyards in Yokohama after a series of upgrades to the same to lay the keel of these ships of magnificent dimensions. The supercarrier was also the first Japanese aircraft carrier built with a flight deck at an angle, steam catapults, and the placement of new generation anti-aircraft missile systems and medium-range rotary guns.

General Characteristics

Displacement
• 78,000 tons
• 81,101 t full load
Length
• 305 m waterline
• 324 m total
Height
•71.2m
Sleeve
• 72.6m flight deck
• 39.42m hull
fretwork
•13.2m

Armament
• 8 DER-24 "Bāsuto" AA
• 6 DR-12 AA

Propulsion
• 8 steam turbines
• 4 propeller shafts
• 290,000shp (220,000kW)
Speed
• 32 knots (60 km/h)

Crew
• 874 officers
• 4345 sailors

Aircraft
• 112
•Mitsubishi A9M Zero II (Interceptor)
• Kawanishi KX-9 (Aerial Refueling)
• Mitsubishi Q2M "Tai'yo" (AWE-Water Plane)
• Mitsubishi Q2W "Tai'yo" (AWACS)
• Kayaba Ki-28 (ASW)
• Mitsubishi Ki-225 "Yjirushi" (Tactical Bomber)
• Kyaba Ki-35 "Konduru" (Multi-Role Helicopter)
• Mitsubishi Ki-202 "Seifu" (Medium Fighter)

The modernized Taiho class aircraft carrier actually looks like the one seen in season three of The Man In The High Castle.

no need to quote the entire post, it's enough to just write a comment under, the topic become a mess other ways

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I-400 Sen toku-Class (1960)



I-14 Kai Ko Gata-Class (1960)



Type A, Mod.2 AM-Class (1960)

Nice!

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