ZackWester talked about this here: https://imgur.com/gallery/KXfPSaY/comment/2292539061
Imgur ate the the rest of my submit and ate the half about ZackWester as soon as I updated it.
I had a entire submit with utterly different images and a summary of
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/uncovering-i-400-jap-submarine-aircraft-carriers-ww2
Here is the description I summarized from that article:
Admiral Yamamoto came up with the root and Captain Kameto Kuroshima was as soon as tasked with a feasibility learn, carried out it in 1942, “and the Eastern Swiftly Headquarters permitted it quickly in a while. His proposal was as soon as to form 18 of these ships with the seemingly of making three round trips to the west flee of the US with out the wish to refuel, or one round day out to anyplace within the enviornment. No longer most full of life that, the vessels wanted so as to raise on the very least two attack planes armed with both torpedoes or bombs. Current plans had been carried out the identical year.”
When Yamamoto was as soon as killed the thought was as soon as reduced to five, but most full of life 3 had been carried out, and most full of life 2 entered provider.
“Each and every of these spectacular machines was as soon as powered by four 1,680 kW engines. They even had enough gasoline to go back and forth across the enviornment one and a half of cases. They measured 120 meters in length and displaced round 5,900 tons, which was as soon as better than double that of their American counterparts. Their tainted share was as soon as a unusual figure of eight configuration, owing to the tip aircraft hangar. This equipped the a actually mighty energy and steadiness to afford the ship of going during the extra weight of the hangar and no longer form them high heavy. The aircraft hangar was as soon as compatible under the conning tower and mounted alongside the ship’s centerline.
“This aircraft hangar was as soon as, obviously, water tight and cylindrical in put. Its outer salvage entry to door was as soon as opened hydraulically internally or manually from the beginning air. It had a 51 mm thick rubber gasket.
“No longer most full of life did the ship beget aerial strike capabilities but was as soon as moreover equipped with one of the essential largest weapons ever seen on a submarine. She was as soon as equipped with three waterproofed Form 96 triple mount 25mm anti-aircraft defense weapons and a single Form 11 140mm deck gun aft of the hangar!
“The vessel, being a submarine, was as soon as moreover equipped with 8 torpedo tubes mounted on the bow and not utilizing a aft tubes.”
“No longer most full of life would possibly per chance per chance the [Seiran fighters’] wings be folded abet but moreover the tip segment of the vertical tail stabilizer and entire horizontal stabilizers. The specially designed fighter’s pontoons had been moreover removable and stored in separate compartments on both aspect of the hangar.”
“Fighters had been launched from a 26-meter forward deck mounted compressed air catapult on the bow of the ship. The opponents had been recovered the usage of a storable collapsible crane. Beneath the song, four high-strain air flasks had been associated in parallel to provide enough `thrust’ to beginning the opponents to takeoff walk.
“At some level of fighter deployment, like a flash beginning of opponents was as soon as a necessity. As older WW2 opponents in most cases required some time to heat up, specially designed oil pre-heaters had been employed to salvage the engines as much as operational temperature as rapidly as imaginable. This was as soon as moreover a actually mighty as that you would be capable of per chance presumably no longer beget engines ticking over when submerged, that you would be capable of per chance presumably also compatible cancel the crew!”
All three boats had been “captured by the U.S. Navy they in most cases both sunk I-400 and I-401 as target prepare in 1946 or converted to tanker submarine, I-402. I-402 was as soon as later sunk in 1946 of the Goto Islands by the U.S. Navy.”
