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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 ...
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 ...
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).
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. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Its development ran almost in parallel to its predecessor, the lighter and nimbler Nakajima Ki-43 , and yet the two aircraft differed.
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'.
Generally, Western men's names were given to fighter aircraft, women's names to bombers, transports, and reconnaissance aircraft, bird names to gliders, and tree names to trainer aircraft. The use of the names, from their origin in mid-1942, became widespread among Allied forces from early 1943 until the end of the war in 1945.
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.