Kaga lives!
>>62116363How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man!?
>>62116363Wish the new Japanese carriers had the meatball on the deck.
>>62116387it's amazing how underrated the Dauntless is
>>62116448>underratedReally? The circles I run in all seem to think it was great
>>62116403>the meatballThe Hinomaru?
>>62116363For a country that drives on the left side on the road, you'd think that their carrier's Island would be on the right side, not the left. Why?
>>62118153I don't know, it's been like that since they first aircraft carrier.
>>62118182>since they*Thier
>>62118153wait, I'm a retard. fuck
>>62116458Circle jerks don't count
>>62118182Not on Akagi or Hiryū
>>62116448SBDeez nuts lolololololol
>>62116363Died 1942Born 2015Welcome back 加賀
>The ship bears the same name as the World War II-era Kaga, the Tosa-class battleship turned aircraft carrier that was produced in 1928 and participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. >She is also slightly longer than her World War II predecessor. >JS Kaga: 248 m (814 ft)>IJN Kaga: 247.65 m (812 ft 6 in)
>>62116363>>62118844"""destroyer"""
>>62118877"""aircraft cruiser"""
>>62118877>>62119092IT'S A CA-V!
>>62118395Akagi the original cope cage.
>>62118153Because right-handed pilots have more range of motion to move the stick left.
>>62116363I can't wait for her to meet Enterprise again.>Didn't you have a sister?
>>62118844It's a shame that they're using Hiragana for the names of their ships, instead of Kanji.
>>62119215what the fuck am I looking at
>>62116462>build a carrier>literally paint a target on itbold move
>>62119215Aren't those floaties for the crew
>>62123003>Kanji>aka Han Wordsidiot
>>62123018Where they stored the rice.
>>62123028If you paint the target over a less important part of the ship, the enemy is honor bound to aim only at it, thus reducing damage.
>>62123003Traditional>>62123018Futon mattresses attached to the superstructure for extra protection against shrapnel and splinters
>>62116448>GIs literally called it Slow But Deadly.>Loved for reliability, sterdy frame, and ease of flight, agility>Could dogfight once payloads were dropped, which tricked newer Japanese pilots>Carried the Battle of Midway>Overratedcontrarian bait
>>62124023Anon...
>>62123960Never fails to amuse me how the Japanese, instead of writing their ship names left to right like a filthy gaijin, did the right-to-left vertical script equivalent of>Ha>tsu>shi>moand then proceeded to write their sub designations like the westerners anyway
>>62123263Then don't read about hiragana and katakana's origin.
>>62116363I wish the Aussie government wasn't retarded (and poor, to be fair) and bought one for us. Would be good to have a carrier again, probably quicker than waiting for nuke boats too.
>>62118153i heard once that in the very early days of figuring how to into carrier flight ops, it was noted that the majority of the test pilots would pull up and left when they encountered any sort of trouble during landing approach, so the decision was made to locate the island to starboard, and nobody ever bothered reinventing that particular wheel. whether there is any truth to this, i have no idea, but it sounds plausible enough.
>>62124523the only reason you had a carrier the last time is because the poms let you have one cheap
>>62116363Ok where the weeb shit of her and no ww2 version
>>62125412>sidepony lazy oneechanKaga is my favorite weebshit version of ships.
>>62125429Battleship version looks so cursed.
>>62125429Her preggo art always gets me as hard as a naval gun.
>>62118844They should use katakana, the same way women traditionally had names in katakana.
>>62127682I agree the carrier Kaga best Kaga.
>>62124523I think "Canberra can't into F-35s" is just an outright lie considering that Anadolu was designed from the ground up to operate them and Spain talks seriously every year about putting them on the Juan Carlos
>>62128438You can put them even on a Wasp class no problemThe issue is always sustaining a useful sortie rate, and the fact that the Canberras already have a role to fill as LHDs
>>62118153I think suddenly hitting the WEP on the engine on a missed approach torqued the aircraft counter clockwise and naturally puts it into a left bank. IIRC one of the jap carriers had the island on the left and it had 3x the number of crashes
>>62123028>>62123584They should have armored specifically the meatball and the area around it
>>62127703My nigga
>>62118153>>62124531>>62129364Carrier islands were originally placed on the right because if a single-engine prop plane goes out of control, propeller torque will cause it to veer to the left in almost all cases - even if it goes out of control while on the deck. So placing the island on the right minimises the chance of an out-of-control plane crashing into the island. Supply ships and oilers then evolved to supply aircraft carriers via starboard side as well, using multiple UNREP stations on their port, because the side with the island was the logical spot to put more plumbing & equipment anyhow. And since then it's been inertia and nobody feeling any need to redesign everything for no reason that caused new carrier designs to keep putting it there.
>>62132920>propeller torque will cause it to veer to the left in almost all casesisn't that also the reason why the captain of the plane always sits in the left while the first officer sits on the rihgt?
>>62133647Idk. May be as well that they just copied car layouts there. Also, bear in mind that this rule goes for single-engine planes, which almost always have the prop rotating clockwise. Two-engine setups afaik have one prop rotating right and left each to cancel out the effect.
>>62119215>Sorry anonchan, but your bed was destroyed during the attack >It was worth it for greater Japan.
>>62123003They do use Kanji though.>Kaga (加賀) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)
>>62116363VULCAN LIVES
>>62134100during WW2, but in modern era, they're only using hiragana
>>62135976I literally posted a modern example of them using kanji in the aviation hanger of Kaga.
>>62134193>STOMP STOMP
>>62118877Destroyer? But I hardly even know her!
>>62116363Nice looking carrier Japan.
>>62123028It's the gentleman's way
>>62118153>islands
>>62123960>Futon mattresses attached to the superstructure for extra protection against shrapnel and splintersI guess they could work against sun heat on the bridge somewhat, too.
>>62133647It's so that the first officler can use his right hand to jack off the pilot.
>>62136005I find it amusing that weebs can be heavily invested in nips history but not an iota of kanji.
Bring back the Kidō Butai.
>>62119215I'm pretty sure that these are just mattresses drying under the sun. Otherwise I don't see why not to stacking sandbags around exposed areas of the ship to protect from shrapnel, strafing and splinters.
