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test bd said:

This page below has the VERY BEST information about Izumo.

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She is a nice looking ship with great potential. ..

However I question the size of the crew. 470 ships company plus about 500 troops and airwing. I my experienced opinion that is NOT enough personnel to perform damage control in the event of a major fire or in a battle...Only so much can be automated and those systems will fail at times.

And is the ship built to military standards?

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Thank you my friend. That is, of course, my Izumo page on my World-wide Aircraft Carriers site.

I also have a nice flickr Album for the Izumo:

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I really like this pic of her too:


I also wonder about the crew size. It seems it should be larger IMHO, and I believe, however automated it may be, that any warship requires a certain large number of crew, a certain critical mass, for damage control and repair.

And yes, she is built to Military Combat standards...probably level II like the US vessels is my guess.

Samurai?

...hehehe...can't wait for a 1/350 scale model kit of her to come out!

I don't see any reason why they would not have implemented Japan naval standards in constructing JS Izumo. It's going to take time to sift through all the documents archived at the MoD to verify though.

I saw a 1/700 scale on display at the 53rd Japan hobby model trade show.

Few photos of Izumo's hangar





And one which shows curtain just before the aft side elevator (I assume maintance area is there)



Assumed dimensions look like pretty much the same as aboard Italian Cavour. So if JMSDF would like to accomodate F-35B in the future (the number should be the same as Jeff proposed - around 6 in my opinion) with slight (I mean cosmetic ones) modifications of the flight deck it's completely possible. Looks like it's 100% doable and probably included in the project from the start.

Jeff Head said:

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I also have a nice flickr Album for the Izumo:

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I really like this pic of her too:
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Jeff, I like most this view (of Helicopter Destroyer

(which you might include in your album if you liked that as well -- I didn't find it there a moment ago)

Jeff Head said:

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I also have a nice flickr Album for the Izumo:

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I really like this pic of her too:
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Jeff, I like most this view (of Helicopter Destroyer

(which you might include in your album if you liked that as well -- I didn't find it there a moment ago)

Jura said:

Jeff, I like most this view (of Helicopter Destroyer

(which you might include in your album if you liked that as well -- I didn't find it there a moment ago)

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I do like it Jura.

Do you know of a link to a high-res version of the picture?

Jura said:

Jeff, I like most this view (of Helicopter Destroyer

(which you might include in your album if you liked that as well -- I didn't find it there a moment ago)

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I do like it Jura.

Do you know of a link to a high-res version of the picture?

Okay...I found one myself and will be including it in my Izumo Album on Flickr and on my World-wide Aircraft Carrier Page.

Here it is:

Jeff, here are some good quality pictures of Izumo from Japanese MOD page:

Jeff, here are some good quality pictures of Izumo from Japanese MOD page: