Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-154.5.164.69-20150927044859

42.60.228.10 wrote:

Very resistant to change even if what they've been doing all along is wrong. This thread in a nutshell.

CVB is incorrect. CVR is incorrect. CVA is vaguely correct, but not in the way it should be.

The point of using the pre-existing USN hull designations is to make things simple to identify, and in the case of designations not existing, the substitute should be fairly easy to identify by intuition. I'm not advocating the use of any designation in this particular instance, just trying to clarify some guidelines.

(As an aside, I'm looking at the box for Tamiya's late-war Mogami, which refers to it as an "Aircraft-Carrying Cruiser". Not the be-all-end-all of sources, but it's a something.)