Kongō-class battlecruiser photograph

Kongō-class Battlecruiser

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Built1911–1915
Planned 4
Aircraft carried3 × floatplanes
In commission1913–1945
Lost 4
Sensors and processing systems1 × Type 21 air search radar; 2 × Type 13 early warning radar; 2 × Type 22 surface search radar
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ID2573675
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About Kongō-class Battlecruiser


The Kongō-class battlecruiser was a class of four battlecruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately before World War I. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the lead ship of the class, Kongō, was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan, by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness.

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