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at full load, nearly 6,000 long tons (6,100 t) less than her designed displacement as a battleship. This reduction in her displacement increased her speed to 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph) and gave her a range of 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph).
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32.6 mph), and additional fuel storage increased her range to 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) and raised her aircraft capacity to 90. The ten 20 cm (7.9 in) guns, although now all mounted singly in casemates, were retained.
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was provided with a heavy gun armament in case she was surprised by enemy cruisers and forced to give battle, but her large and vulnerable flight deck, hangars, and other features made her more of a target in any surface action than a fighting warship. Carrier doctrine was still evolving at this time
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also made up of three 25 mm (0.98 in) layers of HTS and angled outwards to meet the base of the waterline belt. It connected to a 12.7β32 mm (0.50β1.26 in) splinter bulkhead on the lower deck behind the waterline belt. Behind the torpedo bulge and the splinter bulkhead was another
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from 20 guns to 16; they were moved up a deck to improve their arcs of fire and their ability to shoot during heavy weather. To increase the ship's protection he proposed to angle the belt armor outwards to improve its resistance to horizontal fire, and to thicken the lower deck armor and the torpedo
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The middle deck was the primary armored deck and was connected to the top of the armor belt. It would have consisted of a 63.5 mm (2.5 in) plate of New
Vickers non-cemented armor on top of a 37 mm (1.5 in) plate of high-tensile steel (HTS) above the engine and boiler rooms. Above
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s waterline armored belt was reduced from 280 to 152 mm (11.0 to 6.0 in) during her reconstruction and her deck armor was also reduced from 102 to 38 mm (4.0 to 1.5 in). The carrier displaced 26,900 long tons (27,300 t) at standard load, and 33,693 long tons (34,234 t)
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it would have been 280 mm (11 in) thick and 254 mm (10 in) thick fore and aft. Approximately 1.83 meters (6 ft 0 in) of the armor belt was below the waterline. The side armor was closed off at its ends by bulkheads 229β254 mm (9β10 in) thick. The main battery
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and four of which would have used a mixture of oil and coal. This system would have provided 91,000 shaft horsepower (68,000 kW) to four propeller shafts for a top speed of 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h; 30.5 mph). The fuel stores would have amounted to 3,600 long tons (3,700 t) of oil
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in May 1916, experiments evaluating armor protection, and newly acquired information on the protective schemes of
British and American capital ships. These lessons highlighted the need for better protection of the main gun turrets and magazines, as well as thicker deck armor to protect against
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was rebuilt to increase her top speed, improve her exhaust systems, and adapt her flight decks to more modern, heavier aircraft. After the reconstruction, the ship displaced 38,200 long tons (38,800 t) at standard load, better boilers gave her a top speed of 28.3 knots (52.4 km/h;
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in single mounts. The 3-inch (76 mm) high-angle guns had a maximum elevation of +75 degrees, and a rate of fire of 13 to 20 rounds per minute. They fired a 6 kg (13 lb) projectile with a muzzle velocity of 680 m/s (2,200 ft/s) to a maximum height of 7,500 meters
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that extended two-thirds of the ship; in theory, this allowed planes to take off directly from the hangars while other planes landed on the top. As aircraft became heavier during the 1930s, they required longer distances to get airborne and the lower flight decks became useless.
838:(24,600 ft). The guns were normally supplied with 250 rounds each, although space was available for a total of 400 rounds per gun. These 3rd Year Type guns were intended to be replaced by four 45-caliber 12-centimeter (4.7 in) anti-aircraft guns.
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walls would have had armor 254 and 356 mm (10.0 and 14.0 in) thick and a roof of 178 mm (7.0 in) armor plates. The communications tube below the conning tower would have had walls 76β127 mm (3.0β5.0 in) thick.
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899:, the thickness of the HTS plate would have increased to 63 mm. The lower deck would have consisted of two 19 mm (0.75 in) plates of HTS. For the first time in a Japanese ship, the
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technology. It added an extra twin main-gun turret, using space and weight made available by the reduction of the number of boilers from 21 to 12 while the power remained the same. He reduced the
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fore and aft. Numbered one through five from front to rear, the hydraulically powered turrets had an elevation range of β2 to +35 degrees. The rate of fire for the guns was around two
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s. It was designed to achieve the same speed as the older ships, to allow them to maneuver together as a tactical formation. This design was accepted on 27 March 1918 and became the
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announced plans for ten additional battleships and six battlecruisers, and the Diet authorized three more dreadnoughts in response the following year: a second
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forced the IJN to reevaluate on several occasions which ships it considered "modern" and, in 1911, it restarted the program with orders for the
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in charge of the fundamental design of the ships of the Eight-Eight Fleet, presented a heavily modified version of the
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in the late 1930s. With five other fleet carriers, she took part in the Pearl Harbor raid in
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of the same name. The carrier supported Japanese troops in China during the
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Gibbs, Jay (2010). "Question 28/43: Japanese Ex-Naval Coast Defense Guns".
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1960:. Encyklopedia OkretΓ³w Wojennych. Vol. 52. Gdansk, Poland: AJ-Press.
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to provide protection against underwater explosions. This was backed by a
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decks and a third auxiliary hangar with a total capacity of 60 aircraft.
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Contributions to the History of Imperial Japanese Warships
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Gibbs, Jay & Tamura, Toshio (1982). "Question 51/80".
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Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909β1941
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Construction of both ships began in 1920, but the 1922
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2005:. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute.
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Lengerer, Hans (2020). "The Eight-Eight Fleet and the
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rejected the plan and authorized only the dreadnought
414:. The design for the class served as a basis for the
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818:The ships' secondary armament of twenty 50-caliber
1784:Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985).
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2003:Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869β1945
1786:Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906β1921
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1941:. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
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312:14 cm (5.5 in) guns
2143:List of battleships of Japan
325:8 Γ 61 cm (24 in)
1861:". In Roberts, John (ed.).
1724:Peattie, pp. 50β51, 103β104
1679:Lengerer 1982, pp. 130, 136
1495:Gardiner & Gray, p. 232
1415:Evans & Peattie, p. 150
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169:General characteristics
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1975:Stille, Mark (2008).
1958:Nagato Mutsu, Part II
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1670:Lengerer 1982, p. 128
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768:Kure, Japan
510:Dreadnought
397:Eight-Eight
316:4 Γ single
290:5,500
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1740:References
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83:Operators
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