so Yamamoto devised the submarine aircraft carrier idea as a means to get close to American cities without being detected. Japan had used something similar to the I-400 in the past, except it ...

Over 70 years ago, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s prized Sen Toku I-400-class submarine aircraft carriers were captured and scuttled off the coast of Hawaii. Now a team from the University of ...

The Japanese were more serious about submarine aircraft carriers than any other navy: They built their first, the 2,243-ton, 320-foot I-5, in 1932. It was equipped with one floatplane. In the next ...

SEOUL--The South Korean, U.S. and Japanese navies began their first ... island of Jeju involved the nuclear-powered USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and naval destroyers from South Korea, the U.S ...

Japan’s Izumo-class helicopter destroyers displace around 27,000 tons when fully loaded and are comparable in size to light aircraft carriers ... used as anti-submarine warfare ships, they ...