The Japanese Light Cruiser Yubari

by Aliaksandr Sukhanevich

Yubari, the smallest of Japanese cruisers built after World War I, was in fact an experimental design. The ship was intended as a test bed for new technologies to be employed in the construction of the future Furutaka class heavy cruisers. The ship's lead designer Fujimoto Kikuo, working under the supervision of the Imperial Navy's chief naval architect Hiraga Yuzuru, set out to create a fast and heavily armed cruiser with the lightest displacement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8366673901
• ISBN13: 9788366673908
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Kagero
• Length: 80 Pages