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The Japanese military aircraft designation systems for the Imperial period (pre-1945) had multiple designation systems for each armed service. This led to the Allies' use of code names during World War II, and these code names are still better known in English-language texts than the real Japanese names for the aircraft.
The prefix "Ki" in this list is an abbreviation of "Kitai", meaning "airframe", and was used only by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. "Ki" should be read as one word. For clarification on other designations, particularly those used by the Navy, see Japanese military aircraft designation systems.
They found the Japanese designation system bewildering and awkward, as it allocated two names to each aircraft. One was the manufacturer's alphanumeric project code, and the other was the official military designation, which consisted of a description of the aircraft plus the year it entered service.
Aircraft Allied Code Name First Flown Number Built Service Kawasaki Ki-48 Army Type 99 Twin-engined Light Bomber: Lily 1940 1997 IJA: Kawasaki Ki-32 Army Type 98 Light Bomber: Mary 1937 854 IJA: Mitsubishi G3M Navy Type 96 Land-based Attack Aircraft: Nell 1935 1048 IJN: Mitsubishi G4M Navy Type 1 Land-based Attack Aircraft: Betty 1941 2435 IJN
In a few cases, when the designed role of an aircraft changed, the new use was indicated by adding a dash and a second type letter to the end of the existing short designation (e.g., the H6K4 was the sixth flying boat (H6) designed by Kawanishi (K), fourth version of that design (4). When the plane was equipped primarily as a troop or supply ...
In its place, the aircraft were named with popular terms such as Kyōfū (強風 "Strong Wind") for the Kawanishi N1K introduced in 1943. [2] The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) began using the Type designation system in 1927, for all weapons, vehicles, military equipment, subassemblies and subsystems such as engines and gunmounts. In 1940 ...
Japanese aero-engines for military aircraft were given a wide variety of designations depending on the customer. This led to much confusion, particularly among the Allied forces, where a single engine type could have up to six different designations.
This is a list of Japanese Aircraft in use during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Allied nicknames are in quotes ("). ... Heinkel He 112 (Japanese designation A7He1)