Unryū class aircraft carrier

Unryū class aircraft carrier

The nihongo|"Unryū class aircraft carriers"|雲龍型航空母艦|Unryū-gata kōkūbokan were World War II Japanese aircraft carriers. They were intended for strikes against US convoys. None ever deployed operationally. Three of the six ships in the class were incomplete at the end of the war; the survivors and hulks were scrapped postwar.

hips in class

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