Unryū means "Cloud Dragon", So that's understandable.
"ryuu" is dragon, Tenryuu is Heavenly/Sky Dragon, Ryuuhou is Dragon Phoenix, Souryuu is "Blue/Green Dragon", Ryuujou is "Prancing Dragon", Hiryuu is "Flying Dragon", but non of them have any Chinese look like.
I really love this design. Really original and pretty. I hope future shipgirl designs are like this instead of silly ship hair ornament and serafuku #1243. I don't hate that, but still.
I really like her design... it's quite different from the other shipgirls'.
Probably the cloud decoration and staff. She's highly decorated for a ship died in first assignment. Putting Chitose (also one of the nicely designed girl IMO) between her and the standard carriers helps reducing the gap.
China didn't really have a navy during World War 2. They had a few ships, the largest of which were underweight light cruisers, and they were never taken out past the rivers, as the Japanese would have absolutely ripped their obsolete craft to shreds. The only thing they really did was lay some mines in the rivers.
China during the period of time leading up to World War 2 had basically been in a civil war for two decades by that point, and Japan had been taking advantage, conquering piece by piece of the nation.
China didn't really have a navy during World War 2. They had a few ships, the largest of which were underweight light cruisers, and they were never taken out past the rivers, as the Japanese would have absolutely ripped their obsolete craft to shreds. The only thing they really did was lay some mines in the rivers.
China during the period of time leading up to World War 2 had basically been in a civil war for two decades by that point, and Japan had been taking advantage, conquering piece by piece of the nation.
OH well im not very much into Maritime history,but yeah i assumed she cold be post war, but true i assume during WWII Japan had one of the most powerful Navy in the planet, next to the British Navy, thanks for that pointout my friend
OH well im not very much into Maritime history,but yeah i assumed she cold be post war, but true i assume during WWII Japan had one of the most powerful Navy in the planet, next to the British Navy, thanks for that pointout my friend
Well, British Navy is second strongest in WW2, next to US Navy, if only count ships that is more 1000 tons, US navy has over 70% ships on the world. In August 1945, US Navy operating 6,768 ships, including 28 aircraft carriers, 23 battleships, 71 escort carriers, 72 cruisers, over 232 submarines, 377 destroyers, and thousands of amphibious, supply and auxiliary ships. They not only has number but well trained as well. While IJN has total 21 aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, 4 light carriers, 44 cruisers, over 171 submarines, 169 destroyers. Despite in 1939, Royal Navy is larger than US Navy, but US's ship building capacity is greater than British, thus at the end of war, US navy become largest and strongest navy in the world. Royal Navy at the end of war 55 aircraft carriers (all type), 15 battleships, 67 cruisers, over 162 submarines, 308 destroyers (after minus loss ships during war).
US navy is far superior than Imperial Japanese Navy in term of quality and quantity. Japanese really mess up with the giant which freaking large fleet.
OH well im not very much into Maritime history,but yeah i assumed she cold be post war, but true i assume during WWII Japan had one of the most powerful Navy in the planet, next to the British Navy, thanks for that pointout my friend
See post #1680938 and the comments. In fact, all of pool #8262 ("Historical KanColle") is full of bits and pieces of information.
Basically, China was suffering from a massive, protracted civil war from which the Communists would eventually emerge victorious and drive out the Republic of China led by Chian Kai-Shek
Japan had used this time to expand by annexing portions of China after using false flag operations to create false pretenses for war.
The main reasons why Japan declared war on America were because America had been pseudo-secretly helping the Chinese against the Japanese, America and Europe had instituted a crippling oil embargo on Japan following its attack on China, and many of the more expansionist in Japan had felt short-changed by the Washington Naval Treaty where America and Britain got to have a higher limit on the number of big ships they could produce (the "Big Seven" Nagato likes to keep talking about being a member of) than Japan did, who got more ships than France or Italy, while Germany was basically banned from shipbuilding.
Of course, even limited to 3/5ths of what America or Britain could build, they were still more powerful regionally, as America had to patrol two oceans, and Britain had to patrol 3. Japan could better concentrate its fewer ships, and, more critically, Japan could never even come close to building as many ships as the United States could. During World War 2, with the limits forgotten, America was rolling a carrier off the line every two weeks by the end of the war. Japan made about a half-dozen carriers during the course of the war, couldn't even fuel or repair the ships it had, much less build aircraft or train pilots fast enough to keep up with attrition, and its newest carriers were pretty much all torpedoed by the highly successful US submarines practically the instant they left port.
The strategy Japan had at the start was to claim a few islands (especially places like the Philippines, which had critical oil fields Japan lacked in its own nation) and then sign a peace treaty and bow out while America and Britain were too busy fighting Germany at the same time. They thought that if they just won one or two really big battles, America would just surrender in humiliation. This was because (Czarist, pre-Soviet) Russia and China had done the same thing, back when they were crumbling empires. They sorely misread how much Pearl Harbor would actually rally American support for war, rather than erode it. Then Midway happened, and then Guadalcanal, and Japan lost the capacity to actually win a naval engagement, proved itself critically incapable of a war of attrition, and exposed how drastically different the ability of American and Japanese forces to replace losses truly was.
However, even as they kept losing, the Japanese got into the trap of loss aversion and refused to just take what they had and try to sign a ceasefire, hoping that they could somehow take their losses back, or just being to stubborn to admit defeat.
The thing about the Washington Treaty is, regardless of how much Japan hated being treated as a lesser power than America and Britain...had they not been constrained by it, the costs of the building program the IJN wanted to carry out exceeded the GDP of Japan. By a substantial margin, IIRC.