![]() ![]() Care was taken to protect ventilation shafts so explosive gases couldn’t seep through the ship as they had with other Japanese carriers.īut the Shinano‘s impregnability was only skin deep. ![]() The Shinano‘s designers learned-or thought they had learned-the lessons from the sloppy damage control that had unnecessarily doomed several Japanese carriers. But its weaponry was still impressive: sixteen five-inch antiaircraft guns, 145 25mm antiaircraft machine guns and twelve multiple rocket launchers with 4.7-inch unguided antiaircraft rockets. Instead of the devastating eighteen-inch cannon of her two sisters, the Shinano‘s main armament was supposed to be forty-seven aircraft, rather stingy compared to the 75–100 aircraft on large U.S.
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