Dumping IJN ship's in colour. Feel free to contribute! Pic : Ise

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>>22770645
Ise

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Ise

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>>22770670
Kongou

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>>22770686
Kongou

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>>22770692
Fusou

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>>22770714
Fusou

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>>22770724
Fusou

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>>22770736
Mogami

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>>22770747
Mogami

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>>22770757
Tenryuu

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>>22770780
Ryuho

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>>22770805
Ryujo

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>>22770811
Nachi

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>>22770820
Akagi

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>>22770831
I-402

>>22770849
Aircraft carrier submarines need to make a comeback. With drones or something.

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>>22770849
Natsugumo

>>22770858
They have something like that,but it's one use.

>>22770860
>Natsugumo
That's Takao. Says right there.

>>22770858
US just tested some submarine launched drones. Soon.

>>22770860
Does anyone know the reason why the deck slopes away at the back end?

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>>22770860
Akagi
>>22770858
I don't think Aircraft Carrying Submarine is worthy enough other than scouting purpose, and having radar is more than enough today.

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>>22770874
>>22770901
Oh right sorry here's the real Natsugumo

>>22770901
Our coast guard ships are larger than that.

>>22770901
How would any of them take off?

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>>22770908
Dying Yamato

>>22770925
Bigger than what? The Akagi?

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>>22770927
No.5 Landing Ship
>>22770926
Notice that flagpole thing on the side of flight deck, its catapult, and of course one by one.

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>>22770955
Yamato

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>>22770976
Nachi

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>>22770989
Takao

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>>22771009
I-38

>>22770976
Pretty sure that's Akagi.

>>22770955
The Akagi is not fitted with catapults. They're launched by sailing into the wind. These are prop planes, not huge jet fighters.

>>22771009
There's that sloped aft deck again, I need to research this.

>>22770963
man,Imagine if we captured it intact...

>>22771047
Kept it as a museum...

>>22771032
Weight savings. It's a treaty cruiser.

>>22771047
It would get nuked at Crossroads like Nagato.

>>22771062
>>22771047
It would have been nuked along with all the other ships.

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>>22771025
The last for now, will dumping more in few hours. It's Yamakaze
>>22771062
http://www.yamato-museum.com/en/

A shame Yukikaze wrecked. As far as i can tell it was the last IJN ship to survive.

>>22771124
>wrecked
You mean scrapped?

>>22771124
It also survived many intense battles in WWII and was very beloved.

>>22771141
The ROC was going to return her but she ran aground during a typhoon. They scrapped her and sent some of the pieces back to her home. Japan was pretty mad about the whole thing.

>>22771141
Before Japan could secure its repatriation from Taiwan the ship ran aground and was scraped.

>>22771179
>>22771193
That's actually pretty funny.

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I think I have a couple of these.

Battleship Aki.

>>22771202
Yeah they should have just melted it.
Fuck em.

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>>22771215
I don't know what this is.

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>>22771202
Yukikaze is cute and did nothing wrong.

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>>22771247
This might be an armored cruiser, I dunno.

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>>22771256
This picture is actually misleading as I can say without a shred of doubt that that is actually the USS Lexington.

>>22771047

We would have regretted not bombing it because of all the lives lost boarding it.

>>22771247
Protected Cruiser Pallada/Tsugaru

>>22771256
Armored cruiser Kasuga

>>22771277
Why are Japanese flags on it?

>>22771248
She failed her suicide mission with Yamato and had the audacity to return home safely.

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>>22771248
I like how japs are so fucked in the head that they need to glorify a war they LOST.

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>>22771277
Dat battle line.
>>22771290
She's under cover.

>>22771286
But if we saved it,we could whip the japs into a frenzy if something were to happen tomorrow that would make them go full nationalistic/kill kill kill the Chinese mode.

>>22771304
I like how muricans are so fucked in the head that they need to glorify a war the soviet union WON.

>>22771277
>USS Lexington
CV-2? I don't think so.

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>>22771310
Some cruiser looking thing.
>>22771328
Nah man it's the BC-1.

>>22771323
War didn't end until the atomic bombings happened. VE day was not the end of WWII

>>22771323
#REKT

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>>22771337

>>22771339
You've opened up the MANCHURIA CAMPAIGN bottle.

>>22771313
Imagine we could of parked her between the Arizona and the Mighty MO. All those Japanese tourists forced to confront they were both at fault for attacking America and they lost, just to see a piece of their own history.

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>>22771337
>BC-1
You mean CC-1. And that looks nothing like a battlecruiser, much less Lexington.

>>22771323
And that's relevant how? I'm a bong by the way.

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>>22771345
Some Ise class.
>>22771356
See look, the disguise fooled you too.

>>22771339
Implying there would have been a VE day without all that russian blood.

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>>22771323
I like anime, but come on man.

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>>22771369
Some Takao class maybe.

>>22771323
The pacific theater was mainly US vs JP. The US beat the shit out of the japanese by the end of it. Soviets weren't involved.

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>>22771393
Another Takao maybe.

OP are the pictures recolored or were they originally taken in color? Limited color did exist in the 40's right?

>>22771323
Nice try.

>>22771371
I never implied that. The USSR can claim VE day. But the war ended at Nagasaki.

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>>22771323
So the soviets dropped the A bombs?

>>22771377
look it up, Russia was a huge man and materiel pit for the Nazis. I admit the soviets would have starved to death without literal and metaphorical American Spam, but they did the heavy fighting.

>>22771408
If you looked at a single one of these images you would know the answer to your retarded question.

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>>22771400
Here's the Tone with some Fubuki class destroyers maybe.
>>22771408
Digitally recolored.

>>22771415
Didn't you have history at your school?

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>>22771420
This one is neither colored nor Japanese, but I liked it anyways. The South Dakotas were such neat ships.

>>22771420
>Business in the front
>Party in the back

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>>22771435
This is before they got rid of the stupid 8 inch guns and extended the primary flight deck. You can see them hiding out from the sun.

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>>22771452
Ise or Hyuga under attack while at anchor.

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>>22771323

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>>22771465
Again not Japanese or in color, yet cool.

>>22771474
Can't beat them planes, man.

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>>22771474
Hyuga sunk.
>>22771479
Force Z a shit.

>>22771304
Southerners have been all "muh lost cause!" for like 150 years.

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>>22771488
Fuso before her first rebuild. Imagine if they had brought these over to the British Grand Fleet during the war, they would have been entirely average.

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>>22771502
More Fuso.

>>22771502
>Fuso
More like kuso.

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Only bitch to get underway that day in Dec

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>>22771513
USS Iowa. Not commissioned in the Japanese navy and this picture is not in color.
>>22771518
I don't get it.

>>22771304
It's fucking boring too, worse than facebook games.

>>22771179
Dose anyone know what happened to these parts? Museum? Out door Monument?

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Yama-fookin-moto

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>>22771534

Japanese still haven't learned not to fuck with Nevada, so they get another lesson.

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>>22771538
Kongo while it still was a battlecruiser.

>>22770901
that looks like an escort carrier, or those are some huge ass planes

>>22771538
Kuso means shit in Japanese.

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saki-zuki

>>22771538
Fusou is believed bringing bad omen her crewand officer

>>22771540
I heard the game looses money too. They run it to sell cell phone straps n' stuff to obsessive nerds.

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>>22771553
Ise.
>>22771556
Oh.
>>22771558
Any reason for that?

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Jap patrol boat vs B-25

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>>22771567
More Ise. Before her final refit, same with the previous picture.

>>22771570
I love those pictures

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>>22771579
Nagato > QE

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Mo gami

>>22771565
It's super popular. More popular than Touhou. My theory is that it has something to do with reminiscing about a time Japan had the second most powerful navy in the world while China is looking to build theirs up and extend their power over the Pacific. Or it could just be /k/ (or whatever their equivalent is) otaku jerking off to moe girls.

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>>22771586
Fuso and Yamashiro.

>>22771596
I've always been a fan IJN ships. They look terrifying.

>>22770849
Why did e scuttle these again? I don't get why we couldn't tell the ruskies off. Its not like they didn't get we wanted to keep the technology secret from them.

>>22771567
Her design was faulty, so they modernized her many times. But outcome performance was not very good. Also in her last battle she and her sister is T crossed and bang! her hull split into two followed by the amunition explosion.

>>22771607
They make me scared.

Scared that they'll topple over with their ridiculous superstructures.

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>>22771596
I ran out of colored jap photos.
>>22771612
That's what you get for spreading your heavy turrets around.

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>>22771620
Found another one.

>>22771644
http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/6137-ijn-in-colour-image-intensive/page__st__20

Lot of good pics here.

>>22771304
Hey I like Kantai Collection. I've gleaned some really obscure-ass trivia referenced from literature not available in English.

>>22771304
Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afganistan... We can all count the "glorified losses" of USA. So what?

>>22771663
Such as...

>>22771668
We completed our mission objectives in all of those conflicts.
Who gives a fuck what happens to those countries once we get what we need.

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>>22771304
I just like the character designs.
They're cute.

>>22771686
>2013
Japs pls.

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>>22771690
That's a cover for an art book.
That's the date it was published.

For some reason i like how \k\ and \jp\ hate each other here

>>22771703
It's obvious they are trying to mimic Jane's Fighting Ships so they should at least get the year right. Unless that is actually the 2013 Jane's Fighting Ships, but I doubt that.

>>22771677
For example the Brits remarked upon Heavy Cruiser Ashigara when she was present at King George VI's coronation, calling her a "hungry wolf" in reference to IJN doctrine of sacrificing habitability to maximize combat effectiveness. The Japanese took it as a compliment as she was a ship built for war but it was actually an insult because the Brits prized the habitability standards of their ships.

>>22771679
Well, if you state the fitting "mission" AFTER the loss, you can call every war a "win". So, maybe the mission of japs was to surrender to USA and hoarde money or something, so, by your logic, they won?

>\k\
>\jp\
Whoa, whats wrong here?

>>22771719
Where did they find that out?

>>22771713
We'd be able to live in harmony if every second fucking thread wasn't DO YOU ACCEPT US YET??? / CHECK OUT THIS NEW AIRSOFT ANEMEE

>>22771731
Japanese records and newspapers from the time, probably. Stuff not translated into English

>>22771737
I think you meant casual faggots from reddit.
Not even /a/ is like that.

>>22771719
In Arpeggio Ashigara has little wolf head hair pins for this same reason.

>>22771767
Arpeggio is too nationalist for me. I like KanColle because they poke fun at their ships' design flaws, poor combat doctrine, and the circumstances of their sinkings.

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>>22771819
I like Kancolle because no pigdusting 3D models for the girls.

>>22771721
Tactically and strategically Americas enemies get reckt. Its only the political shit where they fall short. Its America's allies that get fucked after they leave.

>>22771323

>implying the soviets won the pacific
>implying the soviets could have defeated the Nazis without millions of tons of American weapons, trucks, goods

>>22770976
>>22771028
This is definitely Akagi. It has the ? (A) on the aft end of the flight deck.

>>22771924
Maybe if America's allies actually pulled their weight then they wouldn't get fucked.

>>22771565
It used to be like this until they added marriage rings.

>>22772051
You know, if they'd been able to pull their weight in any significant manner on their own, then America never would have needed to intervene in the first place.

>>22771719
>For example the Brits remarked upon Heavy Cruiser Ashigara when she was present at King George VI's coronation, calling her a "hungry wolf" in reference to IJN doctrine of sacrificing habitability to maximize combat effectiveness. The Japanese took it as a compliment as she was a ship built for war but it was actually an insult because the Brits prized the habitability standards of their ships.

how spartan do you have to be that even the Royal Navy complain that your ship's living standard is too barren?

>>22772136
IJN Vessels usually lacked mess halls, a guy came by your bunk and delivered the food. Also bunks were like 1/3 the size of western counterparts.

>>22771924

And war is just politics with different tools, so you lose the political side you have lost the war.

>>22772156
Obligatory Asians are small joke.

>>22772156
>Also bunks were like 1/3 the size of western counterparts.
Well to be fair, the sailors inhabiting them were also 1/3 smaller than their western counterparts.

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>>22772156
I guess that explains why news of Mamiya had such an effect on moral.

>>22772262
>1/3 the size
Translated: 1/3 the size.
>l to be fair, the sailors inhabiting them were also 1/3 smaller than their western counterparts.
>1/3 smaller
Translated: 2/3 the size. You had difficulty with word problems in school, didn't you?

>>22772279
>Autism speaks

>>22772285
>American education system speaks

>>22772298
That's hitting below the belt

>>22772351
Well maybe you guys should fix your education system. Because personally I don't think that it is the teachers fault, I think it is just because the students are idiots.

>>22772373
>the students are idiots
SHHH! You aren't supposed to say that out loud! Also:

>implying the idiocy of students and parents somehow means the teachers are not also idiots

>>22772390
Well teachers can only do so much against such reckless idiocy.

>>22771304
Because this time they WIN. Fuck you E-6 event map.

Why do the jap ships have those weird bridge mast section things that go up?

They look way different from American bridge things that go up

>>22771974
>implying the soviets won the pacific
Japan surrendered, because soviets were close to storming the capital, not because of 2 bombs with harmfull effects still unknown. Known (not by kids) fact.
>implying the soviets could have defeated the Nazis without millions of tons of American weapons, trucks, goods
They could. Would take much more lives of soviet people, thou, so lendlease is a valuable help, ok. The ONLY way, Germany could have won, if England and USA actually actively fight on the side of nazi.

>>22772597
Dat crazy.

>>22770736
>>22770724

Why is her mast so fucking big Was it stable? Looks like a retarded design.

>>22771592

It's not more popular than Touhou in any way.

And Japan has arguably the #2 navy on the planet right now.

>>22772597

Without Lend Lease and western allies bombarding the shit out of German industry Soviets wouldn't stand a chance.

>>22772629

It was perfectly stable.

Japan had the most advanced optical targeting systems in the world and wanted to put them as high as possible.

>>22772662
It was on the latest conventions. Just look at the comiket. It's basically the same but with new characters so that explains it.

>>22772581
Because fuck is much awesome that way. Also, improving ship command and detection ability.

>>22772769

You have no idea what you are talking about. Touhou just moved away from Comiket to Reitaisai.

Last Reitaisai had 4x more doujins than Kancolle did at last Comiket.

>>22772895
Did it? Why did it shift that much this year Reitaisai has bben running for a bit no?

>>22772688
Don't those structures make them a little top-heavy? Or is their top-heaviness mainly attributed to the weight of the guns mounted?

This thread reminds me, I have a book called "Picturesque Cuba and Our Navy." It's from the 1890s right after the Maine blew up but before the Spanish-American War. Great big book full of hi-res photos of Cuba and all the ships of the US Navy's Great White Fleet.

Some pretty cool stuff in there, like a dynamite cruiser and an ironclad ram.

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>>22771415
would have liked to see how well d-day and africa/italy campaigns would have gone without the eastern front going on

>>22770805
>>22770811
>>22770831
>>22770901
>>22770976

There's something about the Japanese carriers that just makes them look so cool

also, >>22770811
carriers as early as 1936? I need to read up on my history

>>22772688
>It was perfectly stable

Not really. Japanese ship designers had a problem with designing ships that are top heavy with narrow beams.

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>>22773960
Japan launched Hosho, the first ship built from the keel up as a carrier, in 1921. But even way before during the First World War there were French and British battlecruisers remodelled into aircraft carriers.

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I have some.

>>22771435
Now THATs an interesting photograph.

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>>22771102
Fubuki (CMIIW)

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>>22774464
Hatsuharu

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>>22774484
Isokaze

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best ship

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>>22774516
Minekaze

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>>22774528
He posted it.

>>22774528
You can colorize her photo if you really love her

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>>22774536
Kiji

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>>22774528
>>22774562
Untrue.

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>>22774577
Shirataka

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>>22774588
Tsurugisaki
>>22774528
>>22774562
>>22774583
Post real ship or go away

>>22774516
She doesn't look like her in game counterpart much.
>>22774583
That's wrong too.

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>>22774598
Taiyo

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>>22774612
Fuyuzuki

>>22771553
>>22771567
I've always wondered, what are those bars on the sides for?

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>>22774625
Furutaka

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>>22774607
Wrong.
>>22774639
Rigging for smaller boats.

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>>22774665
Not in color but look at that interesting deck camo of Zuiho

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>>22774674
Chitose

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>>22774689
Hiryu

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>>22774701
Amagi up close

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>>22774717
Katsuragi

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>>22774754
Unryu

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>>22774781
Noshiro

>>22774818
That looks so fucking stupid.

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>>22774824
Nisshin

>kancolle
Where is my beautiful eyepatch-oneesan Warspite, Japan?

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>>22774850
Kirishima

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>>22774949
Last Ship, Yamato

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>>22774965
Yamato

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>>22774979
last pict for today

>>22771679
> run away before the war is over so you can claim victory
Oh god, you amerifats never fail to make me laugh

>>22772682
The war turned around in 43' bub, last time I checked intense bombing of Germany hadnt quite started yet.

>>22773960
I don't think it was only the japs who did these towerless designs

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>>22774988
soon

>>22774639
If you mean the diagonal bars closer to the waterline, they're for stringing torpedo netting while at anchor

Thanks OP. Today day/k/are does not suck.

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>>22774839
Gamilas pls go

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>>22774965

Rudest ship along with her sister.

>>22777640
I suspected it was some kind of anti-torpedo equipment, and it makes sense too since on later photos you don't see them anymore as most navies removed them since they weren't very effective.

>>22777884
Yup

>>22771435

I agree, the SoDaks were the sexiest American battleships of the war. Sexiest in general is the Italian Littorios though

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>>22777961
Fat and stumpy.

Bismarck's the sexiest for those sleek lines.

>>22778007
not sure if trolling...that's not the Bismarck in that pic.

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>>22777799
That chart really needs to be updated since Unryuu and Bismarck are both in the game, and Yamato's tits are not that big.

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>>22778057
Now for an actual contribution to the thread on my part.

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>>22778027
Serves me right for being lazy, grabbing the first thing I see off Google and believing the filename.

The similar hull shape notwithstanding, the angled smokestack and 3x3 guns should've clued me in that that is Yamato.

>>22778172
Heh, the thing was I was about to say that my major pet peeve with the Bismarck was the double turrets, and then you posted a pic of a ship with obvious triple turrets.

Another easy giveaway for the Yamato is the secondary turret aft of the two main ones

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>>22778158
We webbums now?

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>>22771538
Thank you for finding a pic of my favorite pre-dreadnought that I didn't have.
>and sailing under the Brooklyn Bridge as well

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>>22778172


Bismarck is nice and all but dem Littorios man

I think It's the smoke stacks on them, gives it a taste of elegance like those old passenger liners

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>>22778500
They make them look like oversized cruisers.

Induction smokestacks are cuter.

>>22771304
>need to glorify a war they LOST.
But the game isn't even about the war, hell half the ships have some kind of trauma from the war when they got sunk. They're fighting monsters, not Americans. It's only a matter of time before American ships are added, they already said this.

>>22778592
>It's only a matter of time before American ships are added, they already said this.
Don't believe everything Tanaka says.

>>22778633
I believe in Enterprise-chan's comeback.

>>22778633
I want to believe.

>>22771565
>loses money
Nah, they recently said in some interview or conference that they fund 90% of their operations with in-game purchases. Merchandising is just fluff on top.

>>22771465
Looks to be the Hyuga, if the rear mast is of any indication.

>>22771465
>Spend a long time and a lot of resources converting 4 of your battleships to BBVs.
>Never actually use them to launch planes in Combat.
Those Japs are weird.

>>22779032
I thought only two got a chance to be turned into BBV because they never got to converting the Fusous.

>>22779050
I swear I saw that they were converted as well somewhere, but looking it up right now, no they were never converted. I guess it was just Ise and Hyuuga.

>>22774598
Oh, that's that sub tender that eventually got turned into a carrier.
Never thought I'd see that thing as its former self up in a big pic, thanks.

>>22777713
Oh come on. I like the series for what it is, but watching a seafaring ship zooming through outer space is still pretty funny.

fucking great thread.

>>22778633
German ships were added.

>>22771124
Hibiki and a few others also survived.

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>>22771323

>>22778158
Whats the sauce on this?

>>22780783
Just a bunch of stock footage edited together as far as I can tell. The scene of the carriers of from this.
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675061815_air-attack_Japanese-officer_airplanes-on-flight-deck_torpedo-bomber
Kaga to the left, Zuikaku to the right, film was taken on the Kaga.

>>22780311
Whatever happened to Hibiki though? I know she was put under Soviet service but was she scrapped completely or were there some memorabilia of her preserved after her service? Since we're talking about the Soviets here though I'm going for the former which is kinda sad.

>>22781407
I suppose I don't know to be honest. I haven't read much into the subject beyond knowing she was scrapped.

I should note that Yukikaze also survived the war and was given to China as was the flagship, but she met the same fate as Hibiki. Don't know if anything remains of her either.

>>22781857
Some parts of Yukikaze were given back to Japan after she was scrapped. I think one of it was her anchor. Can't remember exactly but as far as I know, there are artifacts of her.

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>>22781918
Looking up "??/?"(Yukikaze/Anchor) gets me this picture.

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>>22782133
A prop was also preserved along with the ship's helm.
As for Hibiki, apparently she became a wreck dive site, or so it seems from what I've read from a World of Warships forum. Kinda vague details but I'd like to know more of the fate of Hibiki after her service with the Soviets.

>>22771397
yeah totally cause the soviet union throwing 2 million soldiers in manchuria didn't happen , amirite

>>22782133
>>22782620
I really wish she didn't run aground. I would love to have visited her as a museum ship.

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>>22782785
Speaking of which, I found Hibiki's wreck site. It's from some Russian dive site, according from the site where I got the picture from. It's on an island called Karamzin, near Vladisvostok. Hibiki was used as gunnery target-practice when her service with the Soviets expired. It appears there are also ships in the same area too where they too were used as targets.

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>>22782847
Can you post a link to the site?

>>22782864
It's just from some forum where the guy posted the pictures from a Russian dive site. He didn't give the actual link of that Russian site though.
Anyway here's the forum: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1999465&mpage=1&key=&#1999465
He also posted a couple more of pictures but that's it.

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>>22782893
A shame she was used as a target. At least she hasn't been dredged up for scrap by the Chinese like some of the other ships.

>>22782864
>>22783050
Anyway, I found a site from a group of divers who apparently dived in the area where Hibiki is. Apparently, there is some sort of restriction/special permission needed to go to the area, or so google translate says. Anyway I'll try to dig up more Russian dive sites of her.
http://safety-stop.ru/hibiki/

>>22783050
Funny thing about those scrap fishers is that they should know there's a problem with what they're doing if other Chinese people get angry about it.

How come ships have so many little details?
Wouldn't they resist damage and be easier to maintain if they were simple curves like armour?

>>22778592

Are they ever going to let westerners play or are they still too cheap to get a real server for the game?

bahaha we sunk all these jap pieces of shit

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>>22783800
No, baka gaijin are not allowed. Just read the wiki if you really want to play.
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial:_How_to_Register
>>22783811
>Yukikaze
>Hibiki
>Ushio
>I-401
>Nagato
>Sakawa
>Houshou
A bunch more were not sunk as well but I'm too lazy to name them.

>>22783509
not really, the distances and calibers of weapons used against them, combined with range and accuracy of contemporary weapons and issues around seaworthiness, stability and weather considerations mean that the way they are built is the way they are built. Something the size of a battleship with tons and tons of armor on top of the ship would make it too slow to be effective, it would be a fortress on the sea that couldn't move, would be unseaworthy and be a naked target to aircraft.

>>22783800
it's good but it's not nearly as militaristic as you think, it's mostly RNG based, and tactics are few and far between.
Fun as fuck though and for what it is quite amazing, but probably not what you are thinking it is.

>>22783912
the I-401 was sunk after the war wasn't it?

>>22784368
Yes, but not during it. I'm too lazy and tired to argue anything further about this though.

>>22784393
>Yes, but not during it
Now that sentence after posting it, it sounds stupid. I'm just gonna go to bed now before I make myself look even worse.

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>>22784368

It was captured by the USN right after the war ended. It was sunk "as a target" to prevent the Soviets from getting a look at it. The I-400 series of subs really is amazing and a true technological feat. For all the short sightedness that defined the IJN, the concept and design of the I-400s revolutionized submarine warfare.

>>22784984
whoah fascinating stuff.

A sub that carried a couple of ASW float helis would be breddy neat.

>>22770645
why fucking bother? the only color is gray.

>>22784368
The whole I-400 class off Hawaii I think.

>>22782133
>>22782620
I say we rebuild her. Honestly the state some planes were in before they were "restored" was much worse, like totally crushed under ice. Tanks get rebuilt from range targets or off the bottom of the sea.

Reconstructing a whole ship from a propeller and some other stuff would be crazy expensive, but the Japanese seem to be trending more militaristic these days, and its not like anything else has survived to represent the WW2 IJN.

I wish we kept Nagato as a museum ship instead of nuking her. If only they could've seen 70 years into the future and known that Japan made an incredibly popular browser game about her. Think about all the otaku tourism moneys.

>>22785239
And there comes China with "muh Nanjing" or other shit like that.

>>22785316
Nagato is still intact at the bottom of the ocean. the nuke merely irradiate her and was abandon as a result.

unlike Yamato that's in literal pieces

>>22785982
It doesn't take a Chinaman to see that the Japs are bolstering their armed forces. It just takes one to think that its a bad thing. Also, when the scrapping of IJN wreaks came up in the news a bunch of Chinese people also condemned the practice. A lot of where that sentiment comes from is due to the fact that China and Korea are the countries that suffer from Japan's loss of history.

>>22785316
I think there was a time the Americans reconsidered putting Nagato in USN service with American tech and I think it's her damage that she sustained that prevented her from being put into service as it was deemed too expensive to repair then rearm her with American tech.

>>22774818
yamato
salut

>>22783100
>>>/a/113572657
>Thank you very much, anon. I've already made plan to go there (the place where the Hibiki was sunk) the next time I'm on holiday.
Oh boy. Hopefully that slav takes pictures while he is there.

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http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2138141036256434601
More wreck exploration.

>>22786057

i find that hard to believe given they were already putting most of the capital gunships in reserve or decommision after the war

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Fuso class best class.

>>22787297
The USN isn't monolithic after all, wouldn't be surprised if it was just another proposal that didn't go through as what usually happens.

>>22771074
>It's a treaty cruiser.
>implying Japan actually honored the treaty

>>22786057
>Nagato considered for USN service
>in an era where aircraft carriers dominate
>in an era when the US didn't know what to do with their own battleships
>in an era where the US had some of the most powerful battleships afloat ie: Iowa class

What kind of weed are you smoking? I want some.

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>>22786057
Nagato might have been commissioned for evaluations like Prinz Eugen, but unlikely it would've ever gone into active service. Even then, Nagato was quite old by the time she was surrendered, and there wasn't much new info to discover.

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>>22785239

Werent they gonna raise Graf Spee and rebuild her as a museum? whatever happened to that? Last I heard James Cameron was going to film it and they raised a rangefinder or something

>>22788154
Obviously that's why they DIDN'T do it, moron.

>>22774824
Always loved the Agano class. Just a very aesthetically pleasing design, and they fit very well into Japan's scout cruiser doctrine.