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Wartime Naval Armaments Supplement Programme

wartime Naval Armaments

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ7971036 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Wartime Naval Armaments Supplement Programme (マル戦計画, 昭和十八年度戦時艦艇建造計画, Maru Sen Keikaku, Shōwa-Jūhachi-Nendo Senji Kantei-Kenzō Keikaku) was the 1943-44 War Programme to fund further wartime armaments expansion plans of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).

Background

Due to shifting wartime circumstances, the IJN focused on the construction of auxiliary and escort ships. As a result, the Wartime Naval Armaments Supplement Programme lacked any major warships capable of offensive operations.

Table of vessels funded under 1944-45 Estimates

Table of vessels funded under 1945-46 Estimates

This programme was projected only, and the vessels were never ordered.

References

Rekishi Gunzō series, Gakken (Japan)

The Maru Special series, Ushio Shobō

Daiji Katagiri, Ship Name Chronicles of the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, Kōjinsha (Japan), June 1988, ISBN 4-7698-0386-9

"The Society of Naval Architects of Japan". (SNAJ), Histories of shipbuilding in Shōwa period (1), "Hara Shobō".

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wartime Naval Armaments Supplement Programme” as wartime Naval Armaments. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 1944, 1945, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wartime, Naval and Armaments can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wartime Naval Armaments. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7971036. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wartime Naval Armaments Supplement Programme” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.