Fictional Japanese Hybrid Battleship-Carrier - 日高 (Hidaka) - 2022 Rebuild

2022 Rebuild!

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Or 'An answer to the question: What happens when you scale up the Ise after she was converted to a hybrid-carrier?'

AU Profile: Later members of the Izumi-class became platforms for experimental conversions into various kinds of hybrid battleship-carriers and pure aircraft carriers during the 60s. In this case, the Ise-class in her 1944 configuration was used as the basis for a half-and-half hybrid battleship-carrier.

Original battleship build can be found here.

Next will be a slightly different take on the hybrid battleship-carrier, instead based on the flugdeckkreuzer projects of 1930s Germany.

Class Overview
Name:	Izumi class (Hidaka sub-class)
Builders:	Yokosuka Dockyards Kure Naval Dockyards Sasebo Naval Dockyards Maizuru Naval Dockyards
Operators:	Imperial Japanese Navy
General Characteristics
Type:	Hybrid Battleship-Carrier
Length:	451 m at water-line 463 m overall
Beam:	51 m at water-line 75 m overall
Draught:	10.5 m
Propulsion:	24 improved Kampon boilers, driving 6 steam turbines six 4-bladed propellers, 5 m diameter
Speed:	32.5 knots
Armament:	As built: 9 × 56 cm/65 Type 15 guns (3 × III). 32 × 15 cm/60 Type 5 kai guns (16 × II). 28 × 10 cm/65 Type 98 kai guns (14 × II). 40 × 5 cm/65 Type 5 guns (20 × II).
Armor:	1000 mm on face of main turrets 650 mm side armor, inclined 15 degrees 300 mm armored deck
Aircraft carried:	10 Yokosuka R2Y Keiun 25 Mitsubishi A8M Rikufū 25 Kyūshū J7W Shinden 25 Nakajima J5N Tenrai 2 catapults