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Nice work, my friend...good to see the IJN drawings are restarting!

Very interesting addition. Great work BB1987!

Very nice!
That CA-AA Kumano really could've helped it after the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

another round, the C-39 Class Light Cruiser:


This is the first design for what will become the Agano Class, dated march 1938 it called for a 7.800t light cruiser armed with 6x 6-inch (150mm) guns in twin turrets, 4x 3.9-inch (80mm) anti-air guns in twin mounts and six 25mm machine guns in two triple mounts; torpedo armament was to be composed of two quadruple Type 92 torpedo tubes, a 6-boiler machinery was to be fitted for a top speed of 36knots.
The c-39 project was slighy bigger and a knot faster than the Agano that was actually built, as armament differed only in machine-gun layout; the cruiser profile was instead quite different particulary because of the absence of the distinctive trunked funnels, by that time a distinctiv mark of nearly all IJN warships.

Beautiful work...and an interesting design...kind of like a scaled-down Japanese version of the Brooklyns! I like it!

Great work.

Very interesting, I hadn't seen this before. I agree it looks quite attractive, more so than the Agano and that had some nice lines.

Very nice!
I've also heard about the Unryu-class having a successor, named Project G18.

BrentD15 wrote:Very nice!
I've also heard about the Unryu-class having a successor, named Project G18.

For what i know, the G18 was basically a plan to build a class of light carriers based on the Ibuki, but obviously built as CV from the keel and not as an heavy cruiser conversion; i'm currently drawing Ibuki as a carrier, but it takes a looong time to complete it.


Meanwhile, here is another unfulfilled conversion plan:

1936 CLAA Tenryu conversion:

In 1936 a plan emerged to refit the tenryu class ships as anti-aircraft cruisers, this called for the removal of all four 5.5-inch (140mm) guns, to be replaced by eight Type89 5-inch (127mm) ones, argumented by four trilpe 25mm machine guns; the three funnels would have been trunked toghether to improve firing arcs, masts and superstructure would also be heavily redesigned and toped by two Type94 HA director equipped with 4,5-meter rangefinders; for ASW the plan called for two depth charge throwers and four depth charge chutes to be fitted on the fantail.


1939 cLAA Tatsuta conversion:

In 1939 the same conversion plan resurfaced again, this time replacing the 5-inch guns with the new Type 98 3.1-inch (80mm) guns then under developement; the plan was eventually rejected in favor of the Akizuki class Destroyers.

Excellent work.