While the initial renewal of the Kriegsmarine included as an objective the control of the Baltic, and to be able to sustain a war with France (her fleet was mostly in the Mediterranean) Hitler, increasingly confident, decided in 1938 he wanted also the possibility to take on the Royal Navy in a war scenario with the UK in its home waters. Graf Zeppelin being launched in December 1938 Plan Z Thus, it was only until Plan Z that new ambitious carriers were planned, with only one of the four planned being laid down, named after the famous count Zepplin himself. At the time, the only “carrier” like projects the Germans looked into was directly for their airship’s ability to deploy fighters for self-defense. The appearance and raid of HMS Furious on a Zeppelin base in 1918 was duly noted by the German admiralty, but it occurred far too late in the war to devise any response. Germany (1939) Aircraft Carrier – 1 unfinished Germany’s aircraft carrierĬontrary to most European powers, Germany never ventured into the Aircraft carrier genre, bar perhaps a few ad hoc conversions as seaplane tenders.
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