Down a little since World War II.
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Too bad they don’t have the F-35C right now....
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Japan has not V/Stol aircraft and its “helicopter destroyers” lack ski ramps, so the comparison to “harrier carriers” is a bit far fetched.
Good thing they didn’t name it for the Hiryu - they would have had to put the island on the wrong side of the deck.
The original Kaga blowed up real good.
In every measure, the Japanese Navy is more powerful than the British Royal Navy. The only exception is the Royal Navy nuclear Poseidon equipped boats... which really have no role in other Naval actions.
It's not, you know.
Thanks for posting.
I sometimes wonder these days if our carriers are too big of a sitting duck. I have no inside information, so I don’t want to cast dispersion where none are warranted.
It is my take that moderate sized gunships with a multitude of guided missiles could possibly cause a massive amount of offensive damage, and with many of those instead of a few aircraft carriers, there might come a time when they would become more of a preference.
I toss this out there, to get some some feedback. I’m not against hearing this would not be as good a plan as I might think.
I just don’t like being in the position of having three or four of our aircraft carriers taken out, and being faced with a severely reduced fleet in short order.
You know if China and Japan are thinking of going to war they would need to get on with it soon.
In a decade or so Japan will have no one but geriatrics to man their armed forces and China will have nothing but pampered “little emperor” only sons whose parents and grandparents having invested their entire lifetimes in rearing and educating them will be in no mood to send them off to be slaughtered as cannon fodder in the name of the great proletariat revolution.
Looks like Thailand needs to step up their game: they only have one carrier!
In the 80s, being in the military and not in business or high tech in Japan was considered to be a failure. Now things are flipping and they organize military balls with women dressed traditionally looking for prestigious husband.