In Response To: Floatplanes carried by ISE and HYUGA?
Ise and Hyuga have often been referred to as “seaplane carrier”, but this was not the designers’ intention. The 22 machines were originally to be Yokosuka D4Y Suisei (Comet) dive bombers (Judy). It began life as a high-speed carrier-based reconnaissance plane, as the IJN had finally come to the conclusion that its carriers needed a few aerial scouts of their own. It was developed, with several variants, into a dive-bomber to replace the Aichi D3A.
