Battlecarrier

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A battlecarrier is a ship that is a combination of an aircraft carrier and a battleship. The only real battlecarriers in history were the Ise class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, although the Playstation 2 games Naval Ops: Warship Gunner, Warship Gunner:2 and Naval Ops: Commander make mention of the class.

The only real-life battlecarriers ever to be built were the Japanese Imperial Navy's Ise (伊勢) and Hyūga (日向), converted from battleships in 1943. Each vessel could carry 22 dive bombers. Unfortunately, due to the shortness of the ships' carrier decks, aircraft could only take off, not land, and were retrieved by a following aircraft carrier after completing their missions.

In practical use, the ships, with half a flight deck and half of a battleship's armament, were singularly worthless, and seldom left port.

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Ise class battleship