ZackWester mentioned this right here: https://imgur.com/gallery/KXfPSaY/comment/2292539061
Imgur ate the the relaxation of my post and ate the fragment about ZackWester when I updated it.
I had a entire post with varied photos and a abstract of
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/uncovering-i-400-eastern-submarine-plane-carriers-ww2
Right here is the outline I summarized from that article:
Admiral Yamamoto came up with the idea and Captain Kameto Kuroshima used to be tasked with a feasibility watch, accomplished it in 1942, “and the Eastern Snappily Headquarters licensed it rapidly later on. His proposal used to be to invent 18 of these ships with the aptitude of developing three spherical trips to the west hover of the US without the must refuel, or one spherical day out to wherever on this planet. No longer supreme that, the vessels wished as a arrangement to preserve up now no longer now no longer as much as two assault planes armed with both torpedoes or bombs. Total plans had been accomplished the an identical year.”
When Yamamoto used to be killed the blueprint used to be diminished to 5, but supreme 3 had been accomplished, and supreme 2 entered carrier.
“Each of these impressive machines used to be powered by four 1,680 kW engines. They even had ample gasoline to plod around the arena one and a half times. They measured 120 meters in length and displaced around 5,900 heaps, which used to be better than double that of their American counterparts. Their injurious portion used to be a certain figure of eight configuration, owing to the tip plane hangar. This offered the an vital energy and balance to afford the ship of handling the extra weight of the hangar and now no longer construct them high heavy. The plane hangar used to be factual below the conning tower and mounted along the ship’s centerline.
“This plane hangar used to be, obviously, water tight and cylindrical in originate. Its outer bag admission to door used to be opened hydraulically internally or manually from the skin. It had a 51 mm thick rubber gasket.
“No longer supreme did the ship maintain aerial strike capabilities but used to be moreover geared up with one of the vital crucial biggest guns ever seen on a submarine. She used to be geared up with three waterproofed Kind 96 triple mount 25mm anti-plane protection guns and a single Kind 11 140mm deck gun aft of the hangar!
“The vessel, being a submarine, used to be moreover geared up with 8 torpedo tubes mounted at the bow without a aft tubes.”
“No longer supreme might maybe maybe the [Seiran fighters’] wings be folded wait on but moreover the tip section of the vertical tail stabilizer and entire horizontal stabilizers. The specially designed fighter’s pontoons had been moreover detachable and kept in separate compartments on both side of the hangar.”
“Opponents had been launched from a 26-meter forward deck mounted compressed air catapult at the bow of the ship. The opponents had been recovered utilizing a storable collapsible crane. Under the tune, four high-stress air flasks had been associated in parallel to invent ample `thrust’ to originate the opponents to takeoff bustle.
“All through fighter deployment, rapid originate of opponents used to be a necessity. As older WW2 opponents usually required a whereas to warm up, specially designed oil pre-heaters had been employed to bag the engines as much as operational temperature as rapidly as that you just would imagine. This used to be moreover vital as it’s seemingly you’ll maybe maybe no longer maintain engines ticking over when submerged, you would factual raze the crew!”
All three boats had been “captured by the U.S. Navy and as well they both sunk I-400 and I-401 as plot discover in 1946 or converted to tanker submarine, I-402. I-402 used to be later sunk in 1946 of the Goto Islands by the U.S. Navy.”
