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2025-08-03 Science & Technology

Japan helicopter carrier is now a F35-B aircraft carrier

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Posted by 3dc 2025-08-03 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [106 views ] Top

#1 ...And the names chosen for their carriers are quite nice - Izumo was the very first ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy; the name has the same connotations to the Japanese as Constitution does for us.

And Kaga...well, you know.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-08-03 07:06|| 2025-08-03 07:06|| Front Page Top

#2 This was the first time a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B fighter landed on Japanese steel.

Now the F4U Corsair has some past history with Japanese Steel.

Posted by Varmint Poodle5244 2025-08-03 10:16|| 2025-08-03 10:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Izumo also saw action along the Chinese coast during WWII

Posted by Difar Dave 2025-08-03 21:22|| 2025-08-03 21:22|| Front Page Top

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