IJN Furutaka - Revision history

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 == Description ==
 <!-- ''In the first part of the description, cover the history of the ship's creation and military application. In the second part, tell the reader about using this ship in the game. Add a screenshot: if a beginner player has a hard time remembering vehicles by name, a picture will help them identify the ship in question.'' -->
-The '''{{Specs|name}}''' (古鷹, [[Abbreviations#.28JP.29_Naval|namesake]]: Mount Furutaka) was the lead ship of the namesake class of "scout heavy cruiser" of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Designed to directly counter the American [[Omaha (Family)|''Omaha'']]-class and the British [[HMS Hawkins|''Hawkins'']]-class cruisers, the ''Furutaka''-class features superior mobility and firing range that allows the ship to, in theory, outrange and outspeed their counterparts.
+The '''{{Specs|name}}''' (古鷹, [[Abbreviations#.28JP.29_Naval|namesake]]: Mount Furutaka) was the lead ship of the namesake class of "scout heavy cruiser" of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Designed to directly counter the American [[Omaha (Family)|''Omaha'']]-class and the British [[HMS Hawkins|''Hawkins'']]-class cruisers, the ''Furutaka''-class featured superior mobility and firing range that allowed the ship to, in theory, outrange and outspeed their counterparts.
-With the arms races during late 1930s rendering the Washington naval treaty null and void, the Imperial Japanese Navy started a massive modernization program for most, if not all of their ships. {{PAGENAME}} was one of the ships to receive a major overhaul. With the weight restrictions removed, the Furutaka's beam was widened to accommodate new machinery, such as replacing the six single 200 mm turrets with three improved twin 203 mm 3rd year turrets, an addition of torpedo bulges, replacing the hull-mounted torpedo tubes with conventional launchers with the famous Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedoes, improved Kampon boilers to maintain the ship's mobility with her increased weight, as well as improved anti-air defense.
+With the arms races during the late 1930s rendering the Washington Naval Treaty null and void, the Imperial Japanese Navy started a massive modernisation programme for most, if not all, of its ships. {{PAGENAME}} was one of the ships to receive a major overhaul. With weight restrictions removed, the Furutaka's beam was widened to accommodate new machinery, such as replacing the six single 200 mm turrets with three improved twin 203 mm 3rd year turrets, an addition of torpedo bulges, replacing the hull-mounted torpedo tubes with conventional launchers for the famous Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedoes, improved Kampon boilers to maintain the ship's mobility with her increased weight, as well as improved anti-air defence.
-Along with her sister ship [[IJN Kako|''Kako'']], Furutaka was assigned to the Cruiser Division 6 at the outbreak of Pacific war. After covering the Attack on Pearl Harbor and island hopping campaigns around the Pacific in 1941, ''Furutaka'' and the Division 6 saw combat at the Battle of Savo Island on 8 August 1942, to which the Japanese managed to score a victory by sinking three American heavy cruisers and forced an Australian cruiser HMAS ''Canberra'' to be scuttled. After ''Kako'' was sunk by an American submarine a day later, ''Furutaka'' and the remaining Cruiser Division 6 would be sent to cover the invasion of Guadalcanal. Around two months later, ''Furutaka'' and the Division 6 were caught off-guard by the American Task Force 64 due to being spotted by the American radar. In the ensuring Battle of Cape Esperance between 11-12 October, ''Furutaka'' was sunk by a combined fire from USS ''Salt Lake City'' and USS ''Buchanan'' after her Type 93 torpedo storage was detonated.
+Along with her sister ship [[IJN Kako|''Kako'']], Furutaka was assigned to Cruiser Division 6 at the outbreak of the Pacific War. After covering the Attack on Pearl Harbor and island hopping campaigns around the Pacific in 1941, ''Furutaka'' and Division 6 saw combat at the Battle of Savo Island on 8 August 1942, where the Japanese managed to score a victory by sinking three American heavy cruisers and forcing the Australian cruiser HMAS ''Canberra'' to be scuttled. After ''Kako'' was sunk by an American submarine a day later, ''Furutaka'' and the remaining Cruiser Division 6 were sent to cover the invasion of Guadalcanal. Around two months later, ''Furutaka'' and Division 6 were caught off-guard by the American Task Force 64 due to being spotted by American radar. In the ensuing Battle of Cape Esperance between 11-12 October, ''Furutaka'' was sunk by a combined fire from USS ''Salt Lake City'' and USS ''Buchanan'' after her Type 93 torpedo storage was detonated.
 == General info ==
 === Survivability and armour ===

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-The '''{{Specs|name}}''' (古鷹, [[Abbreviations#.28JP.29_Naval|namesake]]: Mount Furutaka) is a rank {{Specs|rank}} Japanese heavy cruiser {{Battle-rating}}. It was introduced in [[Update 1.89 "Imperial Navy"]].
+The '''{{Specs|name}}''' (古鷹, [[Abbreviations#.28JP.29_Naval|namesake]]: Mount Furutaka) was the lead ship of the namesake class of "scout heavy cruiser" of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Designed to directly counter the American [[Omaha (Family)|''Omaha'']]-class and the British [[HMS Hawkins|''Hawkins'']]-class cruisers, the ''Furutaka''-class features superior mobility and firing range that allows the ship to, in theory, outrange and outspeed their counterparts.
-With the arms races during late 1930s rendering the Washington naval treaty null and void, the Imperial Japanese Navy started a massive modernization program for most, if not all of their ships. {{PAGENAME}} was one of the ships to receive a major overhaul. With the weight restrictions removed, the Furutaka's beam was widened to accommodate new machinery, such as replacing the six single 200 mm turrets with three improved twin 203 mm 3rd year turrets, an addition of torpedo bulges, replacing the hull-mounted torpedo tubes with conventional launchers with the famous Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedoes, improved Kampon boilers to maintain the ship's mobility with her increased weight, as well as improved anti-air defense. Compared to her sister ship [[IJN Kako|Kako]], the Furutaka leans more towards a conventional heavy cruiser, featuring good continuous firepower and various weaponry to deal with all kinds of targets.
+With the arms races during late 1930s rendering the Washington naval treaty null and void, the Imperial Japanese Navy started a massive modernization program for most, if not all of their ships. {{PAGENAME}} was one of the ships to receive a major overhaul. With the weight restrictions removed, the Furutaka's beam was widened to accommodate new machinery, such as replacing the six single 200 mm turrets with three improved twin 203 mm 3rd year turrets, an addition of torpedo bulges, replacing the hull-mounted torpedo tubes with conventional launchers with the famous Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedoes, improved Kampon boilers to maintain the ship's mobility with her increased weight, as well as improved anti-air defense.
 == General info ==
 === Survivability and armour ===
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 The Furutaka's armour layout is mostly the same as her sister ship [[IJN Kako|Kako]] with some improvements, most notably the addition of 57 mm of RHA around her ammo elevators that made them less prone to damage, as well as a torpedo bulge capable of taking up to 250 kg torpedo hits. One negative change being that a small coal bunker strip on the upper midship section were removed, though this reduced protection is mostly negligible.
-As with the Kako, Furutaka's armour is very effective when angled properly. Since the Furutaka has more crew than the Kako (680 men compared to Kako's 616) and only has a few extra AA mounts, she can survive a bit longer than her sister ship.
+As with the Kako, Furutaka's armour is rather mediocre at flat angles (at 75 mm), but became very effective when angled properly. Since the Furutaka has more crew than the Kako (680 men compared to Kako's 616) and only has a few extra AA mounts, she can survive a bit longer than her sister ship.
 The Furutaka retains the unique fire resistant characteristics from the Kako, meaning that she will suffer less casualties from a fire damage and sometime doesn't lose any at all. This made the Furutaka much more beginner friendly than other ships at her rank, as well as highly survivable with proper damage control.
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 '''Cons:'''
 * Early war Japanese fit
 ** Main turrets can be easily knocked out
 ** Slow turret traverse
 ** Weak anti-air capability
 * Torpedo turrets can't both be used at once and has to turn the whole hull to make use of the other
 == History ==

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 The Furutaka retains four 120 mm 10th year type cannons from the Kako. The guns can still work well against PT boats and small crafts, but will not help much against larger vessels and aircraft.
-{{:120 mm/45 3rd Year Type (120 mm)/Ammunition|120 mm Type 1 HE, 120 mm Type 0 HE}}
+{{:120 mm/45 10th year type (120 mm)/Ammunition|120 mm Type 1 HE, 120 mm Type 0 HE}}
 === Anti-aircraft armament ===
 {{Specs-Fleet-AA}}

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 The 203 mm has three shell choices: a basic HE shell with 8.57 kg of TNT equivalent that can deal a decent amount of damage per hit, a powerful APBC shell with 235 mm of penetration at 10 km and packing a sizeable explosive filler of 3.25 kg TNT equivalent, and an HE-TF shell, which is near useless due to the slow turret traverse speed. The gun has a good reload time at 12 seconds (ace crew), though she will be occasionally outgunned by her opponents due to the low gun count.
-{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
+{{:20 cm/50 3rd year type No.2 (203 mm)/Ammunition|20.3 cm Type 0 HE, 20.3 cm Type 91 AP, 20.3 cm Type 0 HE-TF}}
 === Secondary armament ===
 {{Specs-Fleet-Secondary}}
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 The Furutaka retains four 120 mm 10th year type cannons from the Kako. The guns can still work well against PT boats and small crafts, but will not help much against larger vessels and aircraft.
 === Anti-aircraft armament ===
 {{Specs-Fleet-AA}}

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 === Scout plane ===
-{{main|E7K2}}
+{{Specs-Fleet-Plane}}
 Located amidships is a catapult with one E7K2 scout plane which provides unique offensive and defensive abilities, expanding tactical options. Ship-launched scout planes fly just like regular tree units but lack munition choices and cockpit views. The E7K2 is equipped with only defensive machine gun turrets (ventral as well as dorsal) but it does carry 4 x 60 kg bombs. It also has the scout plane ability to cap zones and lay down smoke cover (up to 3 times). Captains will be wise to remember to utilize the aircraft and consider when best to use it, for example to cap a point early or late in the match, to create a smoke screen to stymie enemy bombardment and repair, to attack enemy units directly, or perhaps something completely new! Carrying a heavier bomb load than most other scout planes, this unit has a very good chance to sink enemy boats or even a destroyer.

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 | Type 0 HE || HE || 835 || 125.4 || 0 || 0.1 || 8.57 || 79° || 80° || 81°
 |-
-| Type 91 AP || APHEBC || 835 || 125.85 || 0.05 || 9 || 3.26 || 48° || 63° || 71°
+| Type 91 AP || APHEBC || 835 || 125.85 || 0.05 || 9 || 3.25 || 48° || 63° || 71°
 |-
 | Type 0 HE-TF || HE-TF || 835 || 125.4 || 0 || 0.1 || 8.57 || 79° || 80° || 81°

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 |-
 |}
 {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
 ! colspan="10" | Shell details
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 ! rowspan="2" | Type of<br>warhead
 ! rowspan="2" | Velocity<br>(m/s)
-! rowspan="2" | Projectile<br>Mass (kg)
+! rowspan="2" | Projectile<br>mass (kg)
 ! rowspan="2" | Fuse delay<br>(s)
 ! rowspan="2" | Fuse sensitivity<br>(mm)
-! rowspan="2" | Explosive Mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (g)
+! rowspan="2" | Explosive mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (kg)
 ! colspan="3" | Ricochet
 |-
 ! 0% !! 50% !! 100%
 |-
-| Type 0 HE || HE || 835 || 125.4 || N/A || 0.1 || 8,570 || 79° || 80° || 81°
+| Type 0 HE || HE || 835 || 125.4 || 0 || 0.1 || 8.57 || 79° || 80° || 81°
 |-
-| Type 91 AP || APHEBC || 835 || 125.9 || 0.05 || 9 || 3,250 || 48° || 63° || 71°
+| Type 91 AP || APHEBC || 835 || 125.85 || 0.05 || 9 || 3.26 || 48° || 63° || 71°
 |-
-| Type 0 HE-TF || HE-TF || 835 || 125.4 || N/A || 0.1 || 8,570 || 79° || 80° || 81°
+| Type 0 HE-TF || HE-TF || 835 || 125.4 || 0 || 0.1 || 8.57 || 79° || 80° || 81°
 |-
 |}

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	The 203 mm has three shell choices: a basic HE shell with 8.57 kg of TNT equivalent that can deal a decent amount of damage per hit, a powerful APBC shell with 235 mm of penetration at 10 km and packing a sizeable explosive filler of 3.25 kg TNT equivalent, and an HE-TF shell, which is near useless due to the slow turret traverse speed. The gun has a good reload time at 12 seconds (ace crew), though she will be occasionally outgunned by her opponents due to the low gun count.		The 203 mm has three shell choices: a basic HE shell with 8.57 kg of TNT equivalent that can deal a decent amount of damage per hit, a powerful APBC shell with 235 mm of penetration at 10 km and packing a sizeable explosive filler of 3.25 kg TNT equivalent, and an HE-TF shell, which is near useless due to the slow turret traverse speed. The gun has a good reload time at 12 seconds (ace crew), though she will be occasionally outgunned by her opponents due to the low gun count.
		+
		+	{\| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
		+	! colspan="8" \| Penetration statistics
		+	\|-
		+	! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="text" \| Ammunition
		+	! rowspan="2" \| Type of<br>warhead
		+	! colspan="6" \| Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		+	\|-
		+	! 1,000 m !! 2,500 m !! 5,000 m !! 7,500 m !! 10,000 m !! 15,000 m
		+	\|-
		+	\| Type 0 HE \|\| HE \|\| 61 \|\| 61 \|\| 61 \|\| 61 \|\| 61 \|\| 61
		+	\|-
		+	\| Type 91 AP \|\| APHEBC \|\| 362 \|\| 321 \|\| 263 \|\| 218 \|\| 182 \|\| 139
		+	\|-
		+	\| Type 0 HE-TF \|\| HE-TF \|\| 61 \|\| 61 \|\| 61 \|\| 61 \|\| 61 \|\| 61
		+	\|-
		+	\|}
		+
		+	{\| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
		+	! colspan="10" \| Shell details
		+	\|-
		+	! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="text" \| Ammunition
		+	! rowspan="2" \| Type of<br>warhead
		+	! rowspan="2" \| Velocity<br>(m/s)
		+	! rowspan="2" \| Projectile<br>Mass (kg)
		+	! rowspan="2" \| Fuse delay<br>(s)
		+	! rowspan="2" \| Fuse sensitivity<br>(mm)
		+	! rowspan="2" \| Explosive Mass<br>(TNT equivalent) (g)
		+	! colspan="3" \| Ricochet
		+	\|-
		+	! 0% !! 50% !! 100%
		+	\|-
		+	\| Type 0 HE \|\| HE \|\| 835 \|\| 125.4 \|\| N/A \|\| 0.1 \|\| 8,570 \|\| 79° \|\| 80° \|\| 81°
		+	\|-
		+	\| Type 91 AP \|\| APHEBC \|\| 835 \|\| 125.9 \|\| 0.05 \|\| 9 \|\| 3,250 \|\| 48° \|\| 63° \|\| 71°
		+	\|-
		+	\| Type 0 HE-TF \|\| HE-TF \|\| 835 \|\| 125.4 \|\| N/A \|\| 0.1 \|\| 8,570 \|\| 79° \|\| 80° \|\| 81°
		+	\|-
		+	\|}

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 * Powerful main armament
 ** Accurate 6 x 203 mm (8 inch) cannons with good reload time
-** Can do full boardsides from an even more steep angles compared to the [[IJN Kako|Kako]]
+** Can do full broadsides from an even more steep angles compared to the [[IJN Kako|Kako]]
 ** Very powerful APBC shell
 * Great survivability