Kaga (Japanese: 加賀, named after the ancient Kaga Province) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Originally intended to be one of two Tosa -class battleships, …

Kaga and Izumo are the first aircraft carriers built by Japan since the end of World War II. Kaga was built as part of a wider Japanese military buildup, triggered by heightened Sino-Japanese …

2024年11月27日 · On December 7, 1941, six Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers, including one named after Kaga, launched an air raid on Pearl Harbor. The attack, which killed 2,390 …

2024年12月19日 · One of Japan’s largest warships – JS Kaga (DDH-184) – returned to its homeport of Kure on Sunday following a three-month deployment to the United States to …

2021年4月11日 · IJN Kaga was originally planned in 1918 as a Tosa-class battleship. Her name, 加賀, came from the former Kaga Province (now Ishikawa Prefecture). These four 26-knots …

2024年4月10日 · Upgrades designed to accommodate U.S.-made F-35B Lightning IIs aboard the helicopter destroyer JS Kaga were finished March 29, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force …

2024年9月10日 · Japan’s largest warship, Izumo-class carrier JS Kaga (DDH-184), is headed to California later this year to hold F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter developmental tests off …

2019年5月28日 · The Kaga, along with sister ship the Izumo, is the biggest warship that Japan’s navy, The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, has built since the end of the Second World War.

Accounts of tests against her show shells striking below the waterline; the Japanese interest in internal armour may correspond to this threat. She was also tested against mines and …

2024年9月13日 · The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has announced its helicopter carrier JS Kaga (DDH 184) will conduct on-board operational tests of Lockheed Martin F-35B …