Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26073628-20150319030839/@comment-26574811-20161228130322

RandomHitagi wrote: Vcharng wrote: 87.11.114.211 wrote: Bolzano kai 2 and Baltic coastal defense ships.

Btw, I don't get how Shinano could carry more aircraft than Akagi since she could have carried less than 50 aircraft irl. Shinano carried 51 aircrafts IRL because:

1. That's pretty much all the planes IJN could offer to one CV at the time she was (nearly) completed.

2. She was unable to be remodeled throughly due to lack of time and money, causing her hangar space to be severely limited by the original superstructure of a Yamato-class battleship. If she was able to rebuild her aviation facility from hull up, she should have been able to carry more. Worth mentioning, she could carry up to 120 spares, aside 51 "native" complement. If anything, she was enormous, and if it was Yamato and Musashi being remodeled into CV, their complements would be much, much bigger, due to more available pilots and planes. No, it's more like she can carry "51 aircrafts OR 120 aircrafts worth of parts".

Shinano, as nearly completed historically, do have an irrationally low aircraft capacity due to the incomplete remodelling..