WW2 WEAPONS IN JAPAN

AIRPLANES

Kawasaki Ki-10 Army Type 95 Fighter

• Code name: Perry
• First flown in 1935
• Number built: 588
• Service: IJN
• IJN- Imperial Japanese Navy

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MITSUBISHI KI-46-111-KAI ARMY TYPE 100 AIR DEFENCE FIGHTER

• Code name: Dinah
• First flown in 1941
• Number built: 1742
• Service: IJA, IJN
• IJA- Imperial Japanese Navy

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Mitsubishi Ki-51 Army Type 99 Assault Plane

• Code name: Sonia
• First flown in 1939
• Number built: 2385
• Service: IJA

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NAKAJIMA B69 TENZAN NAVY CARRIER TORPEDO BOMBER

• Code name: Jill
• First flown in 1941
• Number built: 1268
• Service: IJN

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Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu Army Type 100 Heavy Bomber

• Code name: Helen
• First flown in 1941
• Number built: 819
• Service: IJA

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TANKS

Type 87 Chi-I medium tank (Experimental 1st tank)

• Designing began on June 1925
• Design was completed on May 1926
• production was ordered to begin at the Osaka Army Arsenal
• prototype was completed in February 1927
• Prototype caught fire

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• acted as incentive for the Japanese to adopt Diesel engines
• Many IJA generals attended the trials of the Type 87
• on June 21–22, 1927
• The tank then showed acceptable performance

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Type 3 Chi-Nu medium tank

• developed to counter the American M4 Sherman medium tank
• started in May 1944
• completed in October of that year
• improved version of the Type 97 Chi-Ha line
• last tank deployed by the IJA

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• 166 built
• Had a large new hexagonal gun turret
• main armament of the Type 3.75 mm Tank Gun

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