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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 ...
Aircraft Allied Code name First flown Number built Service Kawanishi N1K Kyofu Navy Fighter Seaplane: Rex 1942 1532 IJN: Kawanishi N1K1-J/N1K2-J Shiden Navy Land-Based Interceptor: George 1943 1435 IJN: Kawasaki Ki-10 Army Type 95 Fighter: Perry 1935 588 IJA: Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu Army Type 2 Two-Seat Fighter: Nick 1941 1370 IJA Kawasaki Ki-61 ...
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.
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.
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'.
Pages in category "World War II Japanese fighter aircraft" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien with drop tank. The Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (飛燕, "flying swallow") is a Japanese World War II fighter aircraft.Used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, it was designated the "Army Type 3 Fighter" (三式戦闘機). [2]