{"id":190296,"date":"2009-12-13T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/13\/call-me-a-traditionalist\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:46:00","slug":"call-me-a-traditionalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/13\/call-me-a-traditionalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me a Traditionalist&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But when the helicopter carrying ships in the Japanese<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/Herald-asahi\/TKY200911230073.html\"> grow large enough that they could easily launch fixed wing aircraft<\/a>, as is the case with the JASDF&#8217;s plans for a new &#8220;helicopter destroyer,&#8221; which, at 248 M (813 ft) and a displacement of 19\u00bd thousand tons, it&#8217;s an aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the Invincible Class CVLs that the UK deployed Harriers, normal detachment was 9, from during he Falklands campaign displaces about 17 thousand tons, and was 210m (689 ft) long.<\/p>\n<p>The juxtaposition of the Japanese and aircraft carriers makes me vaguely uneasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But when the helicopter carrying ships in the Japanese grow large enough that they could easily launch fixed wing aircraft, as is the case with the JASDF&#8217;s plans for a new &#8220;helicopter destroyer,&#8221; which, at 248 M (813 ft) and a displacement of 19\u00bd thousand tons, it&#8217;s an aircraft carrier. By comparison, the Invincible Class &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1188,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-japan","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}