![]() The I-400 class was the brainchild of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Within a year the plan was scaled back to five, of which only three ( I-400 at Kure, and I-401 and I-402 at Sasebo) were completed. ![]() A fleet of 18 boats was planned in 1942, and work started on the first in January 1943 at the Kure, Hiroshima arsenal. The I-400 class was designed with the range to travel anywhere in the world and return. They also carried torpedoes for close-range combat. They were designed to surface, launch their planes, then quickly dive again before they were discovered. They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft underwater to their destinations. The type name was shortened to Toku-gata Sensuikan ( 特型 潜水艦, Special Type Submarine). ![]() The IJN called this type of submarine Sentoku type submarine ( 潜特型潜水艦, Sen-Toku-gata sensuikan, Submarine Special ). The I-400-class submarine ( 伊四百型潜水艦, I-yon-hyaku-gata sensuikan) Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s.
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