--- On Mon, 5/24/10, Roger Burton West <[email protected]> wrote:
> -0700, Brandon Cope wrote:
>
> >These are the largest submersible carriers ever built,
> with a capacity of three planes (and, according to some
> sources, parts for a fourth).
>
> And, even with that minimal capacity and no ability to
> recover aircraft,
They did have ability to recover them, lifting them out of the water with a
crane and pulling them backwards into the hanger.
> that's still 3-4x the displacement of the subs that'll be
> hunting them.
Good luck trying to find one or two subs in the Pacific ;)
> Reconnaissance, of course, is another use for the
> sub-carrier, but you
> don't need a huge one for that.
That's what the Japanese used their smaller aircraft-carrying (one plane) subs
for. The plane on those was much less capable offensively than what the I-400
carried.
Brandon
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