I thought it was a stand off weapon
Distance = life
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It all falls on how exactly Snail gonna make aircraft carrier gameplay to begin with.
As much as another vehicle game is hated here - Id argue they made carriers actually decent (by the virtual of you actually running whole wings of planes and not a single aircraft like WT currently operates)
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I think one inherit issue with carriers is distribution since there’s really only two nations with a wide amount of carrier options both during WW1/2 and cold war/modern.
That’s true. Could be made that their BR/Rank is heavily tied to their airwings, but it will create lots of clones for different ranks.
Also they can go quite liberal to that constitutes as “Aircraft carrier”
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Big but not exaggerated big still smaller than the Kirovs but having as much if not more defense. Main jobs will be BMD but also multi purpose basically Ageis cruisers
They will be fitted as built with SM-6, ESSM, Type 17s, SM-3 blk 2A, ASROC, CIWS and new SPY-7 radar systems and a 128 cell system.
A very versatile loadout keep in mind SM-6 is multipurpose anti ship to anti air and missile defense including ballistic missile defense in the terminal phase.
ESSM quad packed
SM-3 long range ballistic defense
If these come to WT in the far far future it would be pretty good.
A theoretical balanced wt loadout of missile defense and anti ship would be 68 SM-6 and 60 ESSM (quad packed so 240 ESSM) plus 8 Type 17s a total of 308 missiles……or less or more depending how many ESSM you need lol
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There large for there crew size Japan really went hard on automation 110 crew from some sources and a hologram planning table apparently because why not. Though they where shrunk down from the original plan. They where controversial because the USA wanted to sell them land defense systems and the ships would be almost 100% domestic.
Since plans where made and parts they could be suggested now with the ship yard images. Even if there canceled they made it far enough for WarThunder. Would likely be a annoying ship in game yes you can slug it out with other boats but your gonna be very defensive. Subs will be a issue by that time and aircraft might be able to overwhelm your anti-air. Your size might become a issue as well but you might not be picked up on radar at distance easily. Can she hunt subs in any way or is the heli only for transport or as a extra sensor platform?
Yes has a full anti submarine warfare kit bow sonar and ASROC in the vls plus of course the Helis
Her crew size will be 240 with a length of 190m so about a bit longer then a zumwalt
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They increased it guess that makes sense automation is very hard to pull off on ships. Littoral combat ship had a bit of a automation sickness.
I have not seen any names my bet
Yamato
Musashi
Some big supply ship meant to support them
Shinano
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That would be so funny if they name it Yamato lol
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The fate of Yamato II (there might be no things of curses but ships try to prove to us they exist)
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Hs-129 B2 with Bk5 cannon (i made a bug report hopefully it can be passed: Community Bug Reporting System)
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thats the carrier sister isnt it?
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yes was a support carrier
Interestingly we have never found her wreak
which could mean two things
battleship kongo → never found belived to have been scrapped by metal merchants (110m of water deep can work if price is high for metal hardly ideal) Unlikely due to Shinano predicted depth but sink locations have been wrong (still very unlikely)
Sunk somewhere really strange and our data is really wrong.
japan does not allowed anyone to look for it afaik
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People have been looking for her Japan does not allow for people to see or tamper with wreaks. If a ocean survey ship like R/V Petrel where to find her there would be no issue. If located like other Japanese wreaks Japan would likely sponsor a visit.
Japan would not allow lets say a organization like oceangate to go see them (one of there plans was Yamato). Very shallow wreaks are harder to enforce and IJN Nagato does not count at bikini atoll
Though Shinano is in Japanese territorial waters so that is a issue it also means Japan might have found her.
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Knowing what happened to the final resting place of a lot of my countrymen in the Java Sea, I don’t blame them one bit about being so cautious
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True very sad about metal selvage since Shinano is in territorial waters of Japan I would not be surprised if they went there and know of the location. Also Shinano is way to deep for any salvage so she will be fine 50% very good condition 50% mangled wreak from internal implosion. From some stuff I read about her one reason for her sinking was the lack of presser testing so air pockets could have been easily pushed out limiting implosions on the way down she might be upright as the battleship armor was there but no guns. Her only issue would be fishing nets and other junk that has piled up from over fishing in the area.
One thing about wreaks is you can hide a sub by them and fool your hunters by them thinking your the wreak. This has been tested in training apparently during the cold war with known old sunken cargo vessels. Its a trick of life and death so having a map could help your subs hide if needed or find a enemy sub. With drone subs one could find there way there and sit for years undetected. It would make sense for Japan to find Shinano not for any sort of history but to lower the risk of Shinano becoming a risk if someone else locates and uses her as a magnetic cover for done subs or something. That is why I think they know the location also with fishing fish sonars would have picked her up by accident one day Japan loves to fish a lot and have emptied out her territorial waters.
There is a conspiracy that Java sea and Indian ocean wreaks where removed not for metal but to remove the risk of a sub using them for magnetic cover the metal just paid for the operation. Take it as you will.
FYI I would love Shinano in game even as a AI she would be easy to land on due to her size.
The flak guns plus rockets and the 25mm moral boosters should keep everyone away!
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I mean its got an Anti-Tank rifle … its basically an Anti-Tank vehicle … wait that’s TD, lol … like mini-Hellcat ( wait that’s M8A1 ) … so mini-M8A1/Pz.Sfl.Ic
Anyway … less controversial, but
can we at least get the Luchs in TT?
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NO!!! 500 Hundred dollar premium event vehicle!!!
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