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Great work!

Beautiful work!

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Another fine set of drawings!

Noshiro as of 1944:

By october 1944 anti-aircraft armament was increased to reach a maximum of ten triple and 18 single 25mm machine guns, the rangefinders previously placed at the fore-end of the aircraft platform where moved forward abaft the funnel where the two searchlights previously stood, the twin searchilights where in turn replaced by a single one, fitted on a lattice platform on centerline, between the foremast and the funnel itself; radar suite was argumented with the fitting of type 22 sruface search and type 13 air search radars, the former in a twin pair on each side of the bridge near themain gun directors, the latter on the foremast, the bridge structure was also expanded aft in order to make space for the radar room; finally all portholes on the lower decks and some on the upper decks of the hull where plated over in order to increase watertight integrity.

Noshiro was originally intended to be converted as an anti-aircraft cruiser, but such plans never materialized, so expect another drawing in the never-built section within a few days.

Yahagi and Sakawa still to be done here.

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Beautiful work!

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Yahagi as commissioned in december 1943:


Many aspect differentiate Yahagi from her previous 2 sisters, she sported much less portholes since the beginning, also the aircraft handling deck was longer in its aft portion, the midship directors where positioned forward with the searchlights sponsons fitted differently, draining pipes on the hull also followed a different scheme, and the bridge has no windbreaks below the windows; anti-aircraft armament was composed of two triple and four twin 25mm machine guns

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These just keep getting better and better!

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Yahagi as of april 7th 1945:


By the time she was deployed with battleship Yamato and destroyers Asashimo, Isokaze, Hamakaze, Suzutsuki, Kasumi, Fuyuzuki, Yukikaze and Hatsushimo for Operation Ten-Go Yahagi had her appearance changed again, tough for the last time; midship rangefinder and searchlight positions where changed with the searchilight reduced to one and beign fitted onc enterline, and the director towers beign enclosed in a wider structure comprising a platform for anti-aircraft machine guns.
other modifications where the fitting of a type 13 air search radar on the foremast and two type 22 surface search radars abaft the bridge near the main gun director, a control room for the radars was also added aft of the bridge; anti-aircraft armament was increased to 10 triple and 28 single 25mm machine guns, for a total of 58 barrels, a single Aichi E13A1 semms to have been retained untill her sinking.


a little extra about the seaplane thing, i initially doubted that in april 1945 Yahagi would had still carried seaplanes, but this picture seems to prove me wrong:

it's taken by US aircraft during the attack wich led to her sinking (and also that of Yamato and four of the eight destroyers), i've circled in red the area i'm talking about, as you can see above the catapult there are two objects that seems to be a float and a wing of a seaplane blown sideways onto the port side by some bomb blast

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-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation

Very nice work! And yes, one plane remained on board until the last. According to "A Glorious Way to Die", the plane was scheduled to be launched back to the mainland, despite its pilots loud protests that he would rather stay and fight. Unexpectedly he got his wish; the first wave of American aircraft was sighted just minutes before he was supposed to take off and his flight was cancelled.

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Great work! It wont be long before I finish the Ten Go Yamato to go with it . And yes the Yahagi had two Jakes on board at the beginning of the operation, but the other was launched along with the Yamato's remaining aircraft to return to shore. If I remember correctly, this particular one had engine trouble and was unable to be launched.