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Mitsubishi A5M4-K Navy Carrier Fighter Type 96, model 4: Claude 1935 103 IJN: Mitsubishi A6M2-K & A6M5-K Navy Carrier Fighter Type 0: Zeke 1939 243 IJN: Mitsubishi G3M1/2-K: Nell 1935 1048 IJN: Mitsubishi G6M1-K Navy Land Trainer: Betty 1939 IJN: Mitsubishi K3M Navy Type 90 Crew Training Aircraft: Pine 1930 625 IJN: Nakajima A4N1-K: n/a 1934 ...
The Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (キ84 疾風, lit."Gale") is a single-seat fighter flown by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service in the last two years of World War II.The Allied reporting name was "Frank"; the Japanese Army designation was Army Type 4 Fighter (四式戦闘機, yon-shiki-sentō-ki).
The design and development of the Ki-44 differed greatly from that of other Japanese fighters of the time, incorporating speed and rate-of-climb in preference to maneuverability. [3] This was a result of a need for a heavy fighter aircraft that followed a more offensive doctrine and the Ki-44 is often classified as an Air Defence Fighter.
The Nakajima Ki-27 (九七式戦闘機, Kyūnana-shiki sentōki, Type 97 Fighter) was the main fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service up until 1940. . Its Allied nickname was "Nate", although it was called "Abdul" in the "China Burma India" (CBI) theater by many post-war sources; [1] Allied Intelligence had reserved that name for the nonexistent Mitsubishi Navy Type 97 ...
The Ki-43 was designed by Hideo Itokawa, who would later become famous as a pioneer of Japanese rocketry.The Ki-43 prototype was produced in response to a December 1937 specification for an interceptor/escort fighter successor to the popular fixed-gear Nakajima Ki-27 'Nate'.
He gave boys' names to the fighters, and girls' names to the others. Later, training aircraft were named after trees, [3] [4] single engine reconnaissance aircraft were given men's names and multi-engine aircraft of the same type were given women's names. Transports were given girls' names that all began with the letter "T".
A captured Kawasaki Ki-61 fighter tested by the U.S. Navy Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River, Maryland (USA), in June 1945. The Ki-61 looked so different from the usual radial-engined Japanese fighters that the Allies at first believed it to be of German or Italian origin, possibly a license-built Messerschmitt Bf 109.
fighter: Allied reporting name Tony; only mass-produced Japanese WWII fighter with liquid-cooled, inverted V engine; used as an interceptor (Ki-61-I-KAId) & as kamikazes; retired 1945 Kawasaki Ki-64: 1: 1943: Army: tandem-engine: fighter: Allied reporting name Rob; aircraft caught fire & was damaged during fifth flight; abandoned 1944 Kawasaki ...