Unryu-class Aircraft Carrier
| Country | Japan |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
This article refers to the entire Unryu-class; it is not about an individual vessel.
The Unryu-class aircraft carriers were based on the Hiryu-class design, meant to be used fleet carriers capable of embarking about 60 to 70 aircraft. Improved from the Hiryu-class design were the number of lifts (three lifts instead of only two), larger island structure, and the placement of the island structure on the starboard side (Hiryu-class ships had islands on the port side). Construction was approved in the War Construction Program of 1941 to 1942. Originally, a total of 15 carriers were planned, but by the end of the Pacific War only three were built and another three were incomplete.
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