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  1. Stargazer

    Japanese Navy competition programs

    7試 7-Shi Twin-Engined Carrier Aircraft (1932) Mitsubishi 3MT5 and 3MT5A > Type 93 Land-Based Attack [first G1M] 7試 艦上戦闘機 7-Shi Carrier Fighter (1932) Mitsubishi 1MF10 Nakajima NC? NK1F? 7試 艦上攻撃機 7-Shi Carrier Attack (1932) Aichi AB-8 Mitsubishi 3MT10 / Ka-5 Nakajima [B3N]...
  2. redstar72

    Mitsubishi 1MT1 - help request

    Hi all! Maybe somebody can help with better, or at least bigger, drawing of this triplane monster? The only one which I could find is this (see attachment). I found it here: http://www.straggleresearch.com/2010/10/navy-type-10-carrier-torpedo-aircraft.html.
  3. G

    Tokushu Choban Re-Go and early Japanese helicopter experiments

    Hi Guys Here is very interesting. I was not aware of the fact that the Japanese were experimenting with helicopters. Check out this link. http://www.warandgame.info/2007/10/japanese-vtol.html Regards Gerhard
  4. Jemiba

    Aichi M6A1 « Seiran »

    Reading the chapter about the Aichi M6A1 Seiran/I-400 submarine in "Strike From Beneath The Sea" by Terry C. Treadwell, I wondered, why this aircraft actually were fitted with floats ? In the mentioned book and in other sources, too, it's said, that they should be catapulted from the submarine...
  5. Pelzig

    Kawanishi KX-03 giant 500-ton flying boat

    New one to me. 500 tons? What a monster that would have been. The H11K Soku was the KX-8 internally to the company. If the designators went in order, then one can surmise that the KX-3 was a proposal which pre-dated the H11K. Still, I bet no sane military official would have given such a...
  6. Abraham Gubler

    WWII Assault Tanks

    During WWII the British Army came up with the idea of an Assault Tank to defeat German emplaced anti tank guns (PAK) via artillery suppression. Trialled with Churchills the idea was that the assault tank unit would advance into a friendly artillery bombardment that would suppress the anti tank...
  7. blackkite

    Tachikawa Ki-94-Ⅱ

    Hi Ki-94! Enjoy. http://www.webmodelers.com/ki94.html http://ksa.axisz.jp/OM64Ki94.htm
  8. blackkite

    Aichi Navy Experimental Night Reconnaissance Seaplane (AM-16)

    Hi! Aichi AM-16 experimental night reconnaissance seaplane. This flying boat was not completed. Only fuselage was completed. Engine:aircooling in-line inverse 6 cylinder Menasco Super Buccaneer, max power 300HP Wing span:15m, Overall length:11.8m. Height:4m, Wing Area:38.6m2, MTOW:3,300kg, Self...
  9. hesham

    Hiro Kosho H1H, H2H, H3H and H4H flying boats

    Hi, has anyone a drawing to Hiro H10H1 medium flying boat for 14-Shi Specification ?,and it was never completed.
  10. blackkite

    RENZAN first flight movie

    Hi! Renzan first flight movie. Enjoy. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/airplane/museum/cl-pln6/RENZAN.html http://www.ne.jp/asahi/take/pr/museum-a/AVIFILE/RENZANavi.html I recommend you to install GOM player in your PC when you can't see this movie.
  11. blackkite

    Various Nakajima projects and prototypes

    Hi hesham enjoy! I will report specification of these aircrafts near future. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/airplane/museum/nakajima/91sen/91SEN.html You can see many interesting topics when you click bottom parts of this site.
  12. Triton

    IJN "Number 13" Class Fast Battleship

    Drawing of the Imperial Japanese Navy "Number 13"-class fast battleship. Although never officially named, the class is sometimes referred to as the Mikasa-class fast battleship. They are often classed as battlecruisers, but they were a larger, better protected and more powerful version of the...
  13. T

    experimental ww2 Japanese aircraft radars

    Hi people I'm searching for data and pics of WW2 experimental Japanese aircraft radar,I read in a book about WW2 Japanese aircraft ,that the experimental night fighter Aichi SA1 Denkoh was equipped with an parabolic radar. I hope someone can provide me with info/pics of these experimental radar...
  14. airman

    theorical and speculative japanese projects on wwii

    Mitsubishi B-97 "Dorris" Nagoya-Sento KI-001 "Ben" Nakajima AT-27 "Gus" Type TK.19 "Joe" Aichi-Heinkel Type 98 "Bess" Nakajima SKT-97 "Adam" http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=137488 I remember , an other fictional aircraft : Bf110 japanese ... there was other ? ???
  15. A

    Japanese Submersible Coastal Gun/Submarine

    I posted this over in Army Projects yesterday but got no response, and it may belong more properly over here. I was wondering if anybody has ever seen any pictures of drawings of the Japanese "Submersible Guns" developed by the 10th Military Experimental Station in Murotsu in 1945 for coastal...
  16. A

    Japanese WW2 Submersible Coastal Guns

    I'm not sure if these belongs in Army Projects or Naval Projects as it is something of a cross-over. But I was wondering if anybody has ever seen any pictures of drawings of the Japanese Submersible Guns developed by the 10th Military Experimental Station in Murotsu in 1945. These are covered in...
  17. OM

    The Zero - Self-Sealing tanks?

    ...According to comments from someone on another forum, the Jap Zero's main weakness was that its fuel tanks were not "self-sealing", and that once hit they leaked profusely. Was this actually the case, and can anyone provide info on just exactly how the self-sealing tanks on Allied planes...
  18. T

    Unbuilt WW2 Japanese Ship Projects

    hello people has someone info/pics about not build WW2 Japanese cruiser,battleship,destroyer or aircraft carrier projects? best regards T-50
  19. T

    Japanese airliner dreams/projects

    Hi dear members of this forum many is known about German projects about airliners like the FW-300 and Junkers designs for long range aircraft ,and offcourse the Dornier flyboat designs. But my question is did the Japanese also have projects of their own,I cant imagine they didn't. Because they...
  20. T

    Kawanishi 17-shi Land Bomber (K-100)

    Hello folks im looking for the Kawanishi K-100 bomber, it was an competitor to the projected G7M bomber. Im looking for drawnings or artist inpressions of this aircraft cheers T-50
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