{"id":2894,"date":"2017-12-29T00:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T00:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2017-12-29T00:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T00:02:31","slug":"japan-considers-converting-helicopter-destroyers-to-aircraft-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/12\/29\/japan-considers-converting-helicopter-destroyers-to-aircraft-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"JAPAN CONSIDERS CONVERTING HELICOPTER DESTROYERS TO AIRCRAFT CARRIERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Popular Mechanics<\/p>\n

By Kyle Mizokami<\/p>\n

Japan, once a world leader in aircraft carriers, is preparing to wade back into the world of fixed wing aviation.<\/p>\n

The Pacific country, which swore off flat-tops in the aftermath of World War II, is preparing to reverse decades of government policy and add fighter planes to so-called \u201chelicopter destroyers” to counter Chinese air power.<\/p>\n

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japan was an aircraft carrier superpower.<\/p>\n

Japan had more carriers than any other country, including the United States, and its pilots were trained to a high standard by years of war. A little more than four years later, all but one of Japan\u2019s carriers were on the bottom of the ocean, and most of the pilots had been killed in battle.<\/p>\n

Read more at : http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/aviation\/amp14501269\/japan-considers-converting-ships-to-aircraft-carriers\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : Popular Mechanics By Kyle Mizokami Japan, once a world leader in aircraft carriers, is preparing to wade back into the world of fixed wing aviation. The Pacific country, which swore off flat-tops in the aftermath of World War II, is preparing to reverse decades of government policy and add fighter planes to so-called… Continue reading JAPAN CONSIDERS CONVERTING HELICOPTER DESTROYERS TO AIRCRAFT CARRIERS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1206,926],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-aircraft-carrier","tag-japan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}