Submarine Aircraft Carrier - Japan's Super Sub

[pmaitra]

Submarine Aircraft Carrier - Japan's Super Sub

 

[The Messiah]

Half a dozen stealth aircrafts could be very useful in such a submarine.

 

[bose]

Great thinking in those days of carrying planes in a sub... It sometmes amaze me of those thinkers who were way ahead of their time...

 

[indian_sukhoi]

Submarine aircraft carriers weren't only solution the Japanese came up, They also planned Fire balloons.

It wasnt the Imperial Japan submarines which succeed, but it was US Submarine fleet.

The Japanese Merchant Marine lost 8.1 million tons of vessels during the war, with submarines accounting for 4.9 million tons (60%) of the losses.(4) Additionally, U.S. submarines sank 700,000 tons of naval ships (about 30% of the total lost) including 8 aircraft carriers, 1 battleship and 11 cruisers.(5) Of the total 288 U.S. submarines deployed throughout the war (including those stationed in the Atlantic), 52 submarines were lost with 48 destroyed in the war zones of the Pacific.(6) American submariners, who comprised only 1.6% of the Navy, suffered the highest loss rate in the U.S. Armed Forces, with 22% killed.

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/history/pac-campaign.html

 

[Ray]

Now that Japan is slowly militarising, some nations will have to do a rethink.

They are innovative and are ultra nationalists.

 

[SATISH]

Simply put...Japs are scary people.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Japanese are smart, hardworking, and very focus..
But in the course of war they simply manipulated there own codes for there own benefits latter proved to be fatal for themselves only..

IMHO, Admiral isoroku yamamoto was the only true tactical tactician in Imperial Japan, After his death his successor were ill experienced and dont had the same capacity as Admiral yamamoto, The Imperial Japanese navy since then had issue with lack of coordination with his own and with Airforce and Army..

 

[average american]

Japan simply underestimated America.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Japanese are smart, hardworking, and very focus..
But in the course of war they simply manipulated there own codes for there own benefits latter proved to be fatal for themselves only..

IMHO, Admiral isoroku yamamoto was the only true tactical tactician in Imperial Japan, After his death his successor were ill experienced and dont had the same capacity as Admiral yamamoto, The Imperial Japanese navy since then had issue with lack of coordination with his own and with Airforce and Army..

Operation Vengeance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Operation Vengeance was the name given by the Americans to the military operation to kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on April 18, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II and exactly one year following the United States' most direct previous blow to Japan with the Doolittle Raid. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was killed on Bougainville Island when his transport bomber aircraft was shot down by U.S. Army fighter aircraft operating from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.

The mission of the U.S. aircraft was specifically to kill Yamamoto and was based on United States Navy intelligence on Yamamoto's itinerary in the Solomon Islands area. The death of Yamamoto reportedly damaged the morale of Japanese naval personnel (described by Samuel Eliot Morison as being considered the equivalent of a major defeat in battle), raised the morale of the Allied forces, and was intended as revenge by U.S. leaders who blamed Yamamoto for the Pearl Harbor attack which initiated the formal state of war between Imperial Japan and the U.S. After the war, more controversy surrounded the legacy of the mission, as several of the U.S. fighter pilots involved debated for years over who should have received the credit for downing Yamamoto's aircraft.

 

[indian_sukhoi]

Got to admit on that.

Japanese did underestimated US submarine fleet and industry. They were pumping more than sinking enemy vessels.

They way US pumping ships to battle readiness was extraordinary

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Actually Japan never underestimated US, Mins before Admiral isoroku yamamoto launched attack on pearl harbor he said ' we are about to wake a sleeping giant ', He knew he had to strike fast and hard and get a peace treaty or cease fire, He is very much disliked in Imperial headquarters for his views which were correct and true, Actually his death was celebrated in a way in Imperial navy by many of his rivals, And even Sadly the way of warrior was manipulated which was itself a insult to the spirit of Nippon, this attitude took Japan to its sad defeat..

 

[LurkerBaba]

Actually Japan never underestimated US, Mins before Admiral isoroku yamamoto launched attack on pearl harbor he said ' we are about to wake a sleeping giant '

Isoroku Yamamoto never said those words, its a misquotation. They've simply been popularized by the Pearl Habor movie

 

[Kunal Biswas]

I read that in some book in library

It is also said in the movie..

Isoroku Yamamoto never said those words, its a misquotation. They've simply been popularized by the Pearl Habor movie

 

[W.G.Ewald]