Japanese aircraft carrier Aso
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| Career (Japan) |  |
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| Name: | Aso |
| Operator: | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Ordered: | May 2, 1942 |
| Builder: | Kawasaki Heavy Industries Shipyard |
| Completed: | incomplete at end of World War 2 |
| Homeport: | Kure Naval Base (planned) |
| Fate: | incomplete |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Unryū class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement: | 22,400 tons (standard) 22,800 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 227.4 m |
| Beam: | 27 m |
| Draught: | 7.8 m |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines 8 boilers 4 shafts 152,000 hp |
| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
| Range: | 9,70 nmi. at 18 knots (18,000 km at 33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,595 |
| Armament: | 6 × 5 in (127 mm) guns 51 × 25 mm anti-aircraft guns |
| Aircraft carried: | 57(+8) |
Aso was an Unryu class aircraft carrier. When there was a lack of large ship engines she had to be built with destroyer engines. She was incomplete at the end of the war.
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