JS Shinano, 1974

An excerpt from 'The New Rising Sun: Japanese Navy Ships of World War 3'

JS Shinano, Japanese Shinano-class aviation battleship, laid down 1969, completed 1974

Dimensions: Length (overall / waterline) x beam x draught (normal / deep)
	(352.1 m / 340 m) x 38 m x (10.62 m / 10.97 m)

Armament:
	8 - 46 cm 45 caliber Type 94M guns - Maximum shell weight 1,460 kilograms, rate of fire 2 rounds per minute per gun
	130 rounds per gun, in magazines under 2 4-gun turrets on barbettes, mounted on the forward deck
	1 superfiring mount

	8 - 12.7 cm 54 caliber Mark 42 guns - Maximum firing rate 34 rounds per minute, firing VT fuzed multipurpose shells
	560 rounds per gun, in magazines under and towards the centerline of 8 single turret mounts
	4 elevated mounts able to fire over other secondary mounts

	4 - 7.6 cm 62 caliber Compact guns - Maximum firing rate of 80 rounds per minute, firing VT fuzed multipurpose shells
	80 ready rounds on each mount, hull storage of 2 full reloads.
	All mounts elevated and positioned for best possible AA firing arcs without interfering with other weapons or aircraft operations

	2 - RUR-5 ASROC launchers, 8 ASROCs per launcher, mounted amidships. Four reloads for each launcher stored below-deck, can be automatically reloaded without crew intervention.

	2 - Mark 11 Guided Missile Launch Systems, firing RIM-24C Tartar missiles. 24 missiles per launcher, in below deck magazines

Armor:
	41 centimeter main belt, covering vital areas, thinning to 28 centimeters to cover reserve buoyancy areas

	21 centimeter side armoring on aft hangar structure

	23 centimeter armored deck, including aft flight deck.

	57 centimeter main battery turret face, 23 centimeter main battery turret roof, 18 centimeter main battery turret sides, 12 centimeter main battery turret rear

	54 centimeter main battery barbettes

	2.5 centimeter armor on secondary turret face, 1 centimeter secondary turret sides, 0.5 centimeter secondary turret rear

	2.5 centimeter on 5" ammunition hoists

	0.5 centimeter armor on 7.6 cm turret face

	1 centimeter armor on 7.6 cm ammunition stowage

	28 centimeter torpedo protection bulkheads, 36 meters of beam between bulkheads

	57 centimeter armor on forward conning tower, 51 centimeter armor on aft conning tower

Machinery:
	12x boilers, steam turbines
	Geared drive, 4 shafts, 166,000 design horsepower, flank speed of 28.07 knots in speed trials
	Range of 10,000 nautical miles at 15 knots cruising speed, on 7,665 tons of F-76 distillate.

Complement:
	3,157 personnel, including airwing crew

Aircraft Carried:
	32x AV-8A Harrier V/STOL multirole fighter
	10x SH-2 Seasprite ASW/Utility helicopter
	5x AD-3W Skyraider Airborne Early Warning aircraft

Aviation facilities:
	Aft flight deck, with an angled deck to allow for CATOBAR launch operations, as well as multipurpose helicopter lifts/landing pads.
	Enclosed hangar capable of storing all carried aircraft.