Japan's new Destroyer - carrier picture

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Link to story
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3000171&C=landwar

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Is this big enough to launch VTOLs?

Harrier or F-35 type?

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This is only the port side I want to see both.

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Japan's New (NOT) Aircraft Carriers
Japan launched the first of its new helicopter-carrying destroyers, the Hyuga, amid great fanfare. This vessel, officially 13,500 tons, will be able to carry helicopters. Plans are for them to mostly carry SH-60 helicopters, but the Hyuga will give Japan its first real power projection capability since 1945. Japan plans to build at least two Hyuga-class vessels, which can carry up to 11 helicopters, displace 13,500 tons, and are equipped with a Mk41 VLS, giving them the ability for fire air-defense missiles like the Standard and the ESSM, and a vertically-launched ASROC, but also the Tomahawk cruise missile, if Japan wished to do so. It also has two triple 12.75-inch torpedo mounts. The name of the lead ship is probably the first clue that this ship is more than meets the eye. The HIJMS Hyuga was a battleship commissioned in 1918, and which served in World War II. After the battle of Midway in 1942, the Hyuga was converted into a hybrid battleship/aircraft carrier. The new Hyuga looks like a carrier, and her mission sounds like that of a carrier. This ship in the same weight range of the European "Harrier carriers" (the British Invincibles, the Italian Garibaldi, the Spanish Principe de Asturias, and the Thai Chakri Narubet-classes).

Here is also high res picture (different angle)
http://bp2.blogger.com/_hk_cayNIONo/RtTKHbQLc6I/AAAAAAAAFPY/8M3FCw6fpk4/s1600-h/hyuga.jpg