World of Warships Supertest: Japanese Supercarrier Sekiryu

Historical Background

Sekiryu is a fictional follow-on design to Hakuryu. In essence, it is an upscaled Hakuryu with thicker armor protection and a much stronger secondary and anti-air armament. Hakuryu herself is a mix of the G14 and G15 designs from the Imperial Japanese Navy. Said designs were meant to be improved versions of the Taiho.

Sekiryu herself is going in a fairly different direction from the United States and Eagle. Unlike the others, she keeps all the standard squadrons of Hakuryu and they don’t get JATO rockets for the early deployment speed increase. For the tactical squadrons, the ship gets Attack Aircraft and Torpedo Bombers.

Ship’s preview

For the classic reminder, this is a ship in testing, anything can change so don’t look at her like she would already be released.

Modules

Hull	Attack Aircraft	Torpedo Bombers	Dive Bombers	Propulsion
Sekiryu	A8M Rikufū and Kyushu J7W3	J5N Tenrai and Yokosuka R2Y2	J5N Tenrai	Propulsion: 264 480 hp

General Characteristics

Consumables
Slot 1	Slot 2
Damage Control Party Work time: 60 s Cooldown: 90 s	Fighter Number of charges: 4 Work time: 600 s Cooldown: 40 s Patrol Radius: 3.0 km Planes in a squadron: 4

Attack Aircraft

Attack Aircrafts – ‎A8M Rikufū
Tier	X
Hitpoints per plane	1 510
Cruise speed	165 knots
Maximum speed	205 knots
Engine boost time	5 s
Engine boost reload time	10 s
Size of attacking flight	3
Aircraft per squadron	9
Rocket type	Type 5 No. 6 Mk. 9
Rocket per plane	6
Machine gun sequence	3.96 s
Maximum rocket damage	3 150
HE penetration capacity	30 mm
Explosion size	0.73
Fire chance	14 %
Detectability range	10.0 km
Aircraft restoration time	82 s
Aircraft on deck	14

Consumables
Slot 1	Slot 2
Engine Cooling Number of Charges: 2 Work time: 5 s Cooldown: 80 s	Patrol fighter Number of Charges: 3 Work time: 20 s Cooldown: 5 s Aircraft per squadron: 7 Patrol radius: 3.5 km

Torpedo Bombers

Torpedo bomber – J5N Tenrai
Tier	X
Hitpoints per plane	1 820
Cruise speed	145 knots
Maximum speed	185 knots
Engine boost time	20 s
Engine boost reload time	40 s
Size of attacking flight	2
Aircraft per squadron	12
Torpedo type	Type 91 mod. 7
Torpedoes per plane	1
Maximum torpedo damage	9 333
Maximum torpedo range	6.0 km
Torpedo speed	50 knots
Torpedo arming time	5.0 s
Flooding chance	40%
Detectability range	10.0 km
Aircraft restoration time	78 s
Aircraft on deck	24

Consumables
Slot 1	Slot 2	Slot 3
Engine Cooling Number of Charges: 2 Work time: 5 s Cooldown: 80 s	Patrol fighter Number of Charges: 3 Work time: 20 s Cooldown: 5 s Aircraft per squadron: 7 Patrol radius: 3.5 km	Repair Number of Charges: 4 Work time: 10 s Cooldown: 120 s Repair speed: 10% HP/s

Dive Bombers

Dive bomber – ‎J5N Tenrai
Tier	X
Hitpoints per plane	1 790
Cruise speed	152 knots
Maximum speed	192 knots
Engine boost time	20 s
Engine boost reload time	40 s
Size of attacking flight	3
Aircraft per squadron	12
Bomb type	Type 99 No. 80 Mk. 5
Bomb per plane	1
Maximum bomb damage	6 800
AP penetration capacity	351 mm
Projectile Detonator	0.025
Detonator threshold	30 mm
Detectability range	10.0 km
Aircraft restoration time	76 s
Aircraft on deck	18

Consumables
Slot 1	Slot 2
Engine Cooling Number of Charges: 2 Work time: 5 s Cooldown: 80 s	Patrol fighter Number of Charges: 3 Work time: 20 s Cooldown: 5 s Aircraft per squadron: 7 Patrol radius: 3.5 km

Tactical Attack Aircraft

Tactical Attack Aircraft – ‎Kyushu J7W3
Tier	XI
Hitpoints per plane	1 450
Cruise speed	173 knots
Maximum speed	346 knots
Engine boost time	30 s
Size of attacking flight	3
Aircraft per squadron	3
Rocket type	Type 5 No. 6 Mk. 9
Rocket per plane	8
Launch delay	1.5 s
Maximum rocket damage	3 150
HE penetration capacity	30 mm
Explosion size	0.73
Fire chance	14 %
Detectability range	15.0 km
Restoration time	175 s

Consumable
Slot 1
Patrol fighter Number of Charges: 3 Work time: 20 s Cooldown: 5 s Aircraft per squadron: 7 Patrol radius: 3.5 km

Tactical Torpedo Bombers

Tactical Torpedo Bomber – Yokosuka R2Y2
Tier	XI
Hitpoints per plane	2 260
Cruise speed	148 knots
Maximum speed	296 knots
Engine boost time	20 s
Size of attacking flight	2
Aircraft per squadron	2
Torpedo type	Type 91 mod. 7
Torpedoes per plane	2
Maximum torpedo damage	9 333
Maximum torpedo range	6.0 km
Torpedo speed	35 knots
Torpedo arming time	5.0 s
Flooding chance	112%
Detectability range	15.0 km
Restoration time	275 s

Secondary Armament

14 x 2 100 mm/65 Type 98 on a Model A mount
Maximum Firing Range	7.300 km
Reloading Time	5.0 s
Sigma	1.00 sigma
Shells
Type of Projectile	HE – 100 mm HE Type98
Alpha Damage	1 700 HP
HE penetration	30 mm
Explosion Size	0.28
Chance to Cause Fire	6 %
Projectile Speed	1 000 m/s
Air Drag	0.331
Projectile Mass	13.0 kg

Anti-air Armament

The Armor

External armor protection

Hidden protection in the stern

Front and rear protection of the middle section

Citadel armor protection

Personal Opinion

Welp.

Sekiryu looks particularly spicy and it’s putting it lightly. The ship has identical standard squadrons as Hakuryu in every way but on top of that, she gets tactical squadrons as additional striking power. By design alone, she is fascinating as, unlike United States or Eagle, she doesn’t lose any of her standard squadrons, making it a lot more comfortable for rotations and reserves management. This also means that with her standard squadrons alone, we are already looking at a powerful carrier as Hakuryu herself is one of the top dogs at tier X.

As for the tactical squadron, one is a squadron of attack aircraft firing the same rockets as the standard counterpart but with more rockets and far shorter firing delay. Considering that Hakuryu’s rockets were already a great weapon against most cruisers, these jets are going to be nasty. Depending on their maneuverability, they might also end up being useful against destroyers.
The torpedo bombers are also going to be a force to fear (unless they somehow get horrible spread) as it’s the damage of 2 attack runs from standard torpedo bombers packed into a single strike for a potential damage of around 30 000.

Needless to say that I absolutely can’t wait to try this thing on the live server.

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