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Ported to OBJ from the model created by Usio no Ibuki for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. To download, click on the Download icon.

During the 2000s, at the beginning of the 21st century Gregorian calendar, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) stunned the world when it did something that Japan hadn't done since the days of the former Imperial Japanese Navy and World War II: it began building carriers again. As with all things the Japanese do, this was a long thought out and carefully considered move, made in the face of the rising naval power of nearby Communist China. Japan did not want to be totally reliant on a friendly United States to face this threat, even though had helped to protect it ever since the end of the war, and it was also felt that the time was right to do this again - but in keeping with modern JMSDF thinking, and not along the old Imperial lines. It should be said that for the most part the United States agreed and went along with it. Given Japan's peaceful ways since the war, it should have come as no surprise that first Japanese naval warship to qualify as a carrier since World War II was a helicopter carrier (LPH), or "gator carrier" in USN slang - although it was designed and built from the onset for possible conversion to the USN's old sea control ship (SCS) concept for in-service adaptation as a light carrier operating VTOL/VSTOL aircraft if the need ever arose. In this Hyuga is comparable to Spain's earlier Principe de Asturias (based on one of the later USN SCS concepts), the Thai navy's Chakri Narubet (similar design), and the Italian Navy's Giuseppe Garibaldi class. In official JMSDF nomenclature these are classifed as DDH, which renders as destroyer carriers in English and makes no sense whatsoever, unless you understand that they had to be classified this way to get around certain restrictions in current Japanese law (*). "If it walks like a duck ...." Anyway the two ships in the class, Hyuga and Ise, formally entered JMSDF service in 2009 and 2011 respectively - just in time to serve as counters to China joining the world aircraft carrier club first with Liaoning and then Shandong. Japan in turn continues to build new carriers, with the Izumo class succeeding the Hyugas, which also replace them as the largest warships in the JMSDF as of this date (March 2021). To find out more about the JMSDF's Hyuga class "gator carrier," follow the link below.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%AB…

This is another excellent model from the hands of one of CFS2's most talented warship models makers. It may skimp a bit on the detailing in comparison with other models out there, but it's free and you can't argue with that.

This is not my model. All I did was port it to OBJ for you. Please credit Usio no Ibuki if you use this in any of your own 3D projects and efforts. You do not have to credit me for my port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

(*) - Building true aircraft carriers would be considered a direct violation of Article 9 of the post-WWII Japanese constitution, which forbids the construction of overtly offensive weapons systems. A destroyer carrier is considered a defensive weapons system, since it lacks the capability of carrying large numbers of fixed-wing aircraft as would a true aircraft carrier, and which would normally be used for carrying out offensive military operations per long standing worldwide naval practices. Gotta cut those legalisms fine, you know .... -_^

Description

Ported to OBJ from the model created by Usio no Ibuki for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. To download, click on the Download icon.

During the 2000s, at the beginning of the 21st century Gregorian calendar, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) stunned the world when it did something that Japan hadn't done since the days of the former Imperial Japanese Navy and World War II: it began building carriers again. As with all things the Japanese do, this was a long thought out and carefully considered move, made in the face of the rising naval power of nearby Communist China. Japan did not want to be totally reliant on a friendly United States to face this threat, even though had helped to protect it ever since the end of the war, and it was also felt that the time was right to do this again - but in keeping with modern JMSDF thinking, and not along the old Imperial lines. It should be said that for the most part the United States agreed and went along with it. Given Japan's peaceful ways since the war, it should have come as no surprise that first Japanese naval warship to qualify as a carrier since World War II was a helicopter carrier (LPH), or "gator carrier" in USN slang - although it was designed and built from the onset for possible conversion to the USN's old sea control ship (SCS) concept for in-service adaptation as a light carrier operating VTOL/VSTOL aircraft if the need ever arose. In this Hyuga is comparable to Spain's earlier Principe de Asturias (based on one of the later USN SCS concepts), the Thai navy's Chakri Narubet (similar design), and the Italian Navy's Giuseppe Garibaldi class. In official JMSDF nomenclature these are classifed as DDH, which renders as destroyer carriers in English and makes no sense whatsoever, unless you understand that they had to be classified this way to get around certain restrictions in current Japanese law (*). "If it walks like a duck ...." Anyway the two ships in the class, Hyuga and Ise, formally entered JMSDF service in 2009 and 2011 respectively - just in time to serve as counters to China joining the world aircraft carrier club first with Liaoning and then Shandong. Japan in turn continues to build new carriers, with the Izumo class succeeding the Hyugas, which also replace them as the largest warships in the JMSDF as of this date (March 2021). To find out more about the JMSDF's Hyuga class "gator carrier," follow the link below.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%AB…

This is another excellent model from the hands of one of CFS2's most talented warship models makers. It may skimp a bit on the detailing in comparison with other models out there, but it's free and you can't argue with that.

This is not my model. All I did was port it to OBJ for you. Please credit Usio no Ibuki if you use this in any of your own 3D projects and efforts. You do not have to credit me for my port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

(*) - Building true aircraft carriers would be considered a direct violation of Article 9 of the post-WWII Japanese constitution, which forbids the construction of overtly offensive weapons systems. A destroyer carrier is considered a defensive weapons system, since it lacks the capability of carrying large numbers of fixed-wing aircraft as would a true aircraft carrier, and which would normally be used for carrying out offensive military operations per long standing worldwide naval practices. Gotta cut those legalisms fine, you know .... -_^