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| JS Izumo: same class as JS Kaga |
TOKYO, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) commissioned on Wednesday one of its largest helicopter-carrying destroyer with the same name as a notorious WWII warship.
The 19,500-ton Kaga, named after an ancient province in Japan, shares the name with an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy which took part in Japan's aggression wars against its neighbors before and during WWII and was scuttled at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
The 248-meter-long warship, the same size as the Izumo destroyer, is equipped with a large flight deck and can carry up to 14 helicopters. It can also carry the controversial Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
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