Japan Launches A Second Aircraft Carrier
August 30, 2009: Japan launched its second aircraft carrier ( the Ise) since World War II, on August 21st. This past March, it commissioned the first of these ships, the "helicopter-carrying destroyer", the Hyuga. These are 610 foot long, 18,000 ton warships that operates up to 11 (mostly SH-60) helicopters from a full length flight deck. Although called a destroyer, it very much looks like an aircraft carrier. While its primary function is anti-submarine warfare, the Hyuga will also give Japan its first real power projection capability since 1945. The Hyuga is the largest warship built in Japan since World War II. The Japanese constitution forbids it to have aircraft carriers, which is the main reason it is called a destroyer. That, and the desire to not make the neighbors anxious. East Asian nations still have bad memories about the last time Japan had lots of aircraft carriers.

The Hyuga also has 16 Mk41 VLS (Vertical Launch System) cells for anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles. There are also two 20mm Phalanx anti-missile cannon and two triple 12.75-inch torpedo mounts. There is a crew of 350 and a top speed of about 60 kilometers. Vertical takeoff jets like the Harrier and F-35B could also operate from the Hyuga. A third Hyuga class ship is planned.

The last Japanese warship to be called the Hyuga was a World War II battleship that entered service in 1918, and was converted to a hybrid battleship/aircraft carrier in 1943. The new Hyuga will be used for peacekeeping missions as well, and for that role its many helicopters will be most useful. During World War II, there was also a Japanese battleships named Ise, which was the lead ship of a class of ships that also contained the Hyuga. Both were 35,000 ton warships, and both were sunk, in the same week, in late July 1945. The Ise was also rebuilt, during the war, as an aircraft carrier (actually a hybrid battleship/aircraft carrier.)

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htnavai/articles/20090830.aspx




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Whn did they have a first?




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Strategy Page is lame, its a LPH, like HMS Ocean, not a aircraft carrier.

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How far is Pearl Harbor? Or Porth Arthur?

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Deagel is also calling these craft aircraft carriers. For an 18.000 ton craft it seems to be able to carry only a few helicopters. It's always political but I question whether a larger ship might not have been more cost effective.

It doesn't have the facilties to support fixed wing aircraft, and yeah, the JMSDF always rates thier vessels as being less capable than they are (so "official" troop and or rotary wing accommodations are probably not accurate).......again, if your gonna call this a aircraft carrier, you should probably call the even larger HMS Ocean an aircraft carrier we well.......which it isn't.

It's a LPH, not to be confused with a LHD, cause it doesn't have a well deck.

Strategy Page is lame, its a LPH, like HMS Ocean, not a aircraft carrier.

Hmmmm. It carries rotary wing aircraft. I wonder what we'd call a ship that carries aircraft? An aircraft carrier, that's it, a ship that carries aircraft.

Of course its only helicopters, so it is a helicopter carrier, but helicopter carriers are a subset of aircraft carriers.






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Hyuga means "Towards the sun".

The Wikipedia page is pretty interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%ABga_class_helicopter_destroyer

Here's the deck layout of the Hyuga "Helicopter Destroyer"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Hyuga-gata_Goeikan_Sekai-no_Kansen_yoko.svg




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The follow-up 22DDH will be about 5,000ton heavier, with less focus on armaments. It will 'probably' feature larger aircraft handling facilities.

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