By GI Korea on March 23rd, 2009 at 1:54 am

Video of Japan’s Newest Aircraft Carrier

• Pops
  10:08 pm on March 22nd, 2009 1

  Interesting vessel. At over 13,000 tons standard displacement, she is about twice as large as Japan's first aircraft carrier, the Hosho (7,470 tons).

• Daemon
  9:44 am on March 23rd, 2009 2

  I sat in on a ROK Navy briefing and it was mentioned that 95%+ of Korea's trade/commerce goes via the sea and yet the Army still controls the budget. Talk about vulnerabilities that your neighbors can exploit. Hell, a few naval mines dropped at Pusan, Inch'on, Pyongtek, Kunsan, and Ulsan and the whole Korean economy shuts down. The Japanese learned that the hard way in 1945… I guess that's why the Japanese spend more of a share of their defense budget on their navy.

• theotherguy
  6:37 pm on March 26th, 2009 3

  Well the Koreans mostly rely on the US for naval support. They have a really small Navy compared to their 700,000+ man Army. Plus kinda hard to argue with a US Carrier battle group.

• sino
  10:16 pm on September 19th, 2011 4

  What they aren’t saying is that the F-35B (harrier replacement) can probably land on one of these…

  http://www.f35.com

• sino
  10:42 pm on September 19th, 2011 5

• K
  3:49 am on September 20th, 2011 6

  JMSDF will not get F-35 while the air force need them more.

  And I know I’m replying to a two and a half years old post, but I doubt military analysts would describe a navy that has twelve modern destroyers and twelve modern submarines with sufficient support ships and facilities for all of them as a small navy. If this navy was in anywhere except North America and East Asia, it would be one of the strongest and largest. And it’s undergoing major rearmament and build-up for the coming decade which outpace JMSDF’s.

• sino american
  11:25 am on September 20th, 2011 7

  Sorry, I didn’t pay attention to the date of the post.

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