Clayton Magnet
Staff Sergeant
- 854
- Feb 16, 2013
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But they should have been the same plane. With limited capacity the IJN and IJAF should have shared fighter designs. In the FAA, every British-designed single-seat fighter after the interwar Flycatcher until the postwar Scimitar was shared or co-developed with the RAF. It's just an efficient way for smaller powers to field both land and carrier based fighters.Of course Nakajima Ki-27 and Mitsubishi A5M were two different planes.
Really? I wouldn't think the Germans even knew about this aircraft in order to misidentify it.In North Africa the Germans shot down a lot of P-46s.
But they should have been the same plane. With limited capacity the IJN and IJAF should have shared fighter designs. In the FAA, every British-designed single-seat fighter after the interwar Flycatcher until the postwar Scimitar was shared or co-developed with the RAF. It's just an efficient way for smaller powers to field both land and carrier based fighters.
Why have a concurrent Ki-27/A5M, Ki-43/A6M and Ki-84/A7M? What could the Ki-27 do that the A5M could not or vice versa? Looking at the below, the Ki-27 certainly looks the more modern aircraft, why not add a hook?
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Based on the false assumption that some semblance of civility could ever exist between IJA and IJN. Interservice rivalry was an eternal cutthroat struggle with them.But they should have been the same plane. With limited capacity the IJN and IJAF should have shared fighter designs.
Dream on, Sonny. T'aint that simple. A plane designed for light weight, as both of these were, needs to be designed from the KEEL up for carrier operations. Impact loads on the after fuselage, tailwheel assembly, main gear assemblies, and center section spars are many times greater than on a land plane. Carrier landings in those days were "chop and drop" affairs, way more concerned with accuracy of touchdown than smoothness of landing. Forward and downward visibility was paramount so frequently angles of incidence were adjusted to give a more nose-low attitude in landing configuration. There's more to it than meets the eye.why not add a hook
They knew that Curtiss was working on it, so when Kittyhawks and P-40Fs started turning up, they assumed that's what they were.Really? I wouldn't think the Germans even knew about this aircraft in order to misidentify it.
Then start with the naval aircraft and remove the carrier fittings for the IJAF.A plane designed for light weight, as both of these were, needs to be designed from the KEEL up for carrier operations.
Then start with the naval aircraft and remove the carrier fittings for the IJAF.
But yes, the government, that controls the purse strings and contracts must force cooperation.
Why did they not listen to these reports? Or, moreover, why did they see them as being insane?Well early on in the war the US forces were quite myopic to what aerial equipments they might face from Japan, even ignoring the reports from the Flying Tigers volunteers as being delusional and/or influenced by Japanese propaganda.
A twentieth century ninja. "Gekujo", or "insubordination in furtherance of a patriotic cause" was common among radical young IJA officers, whose mindset could be seen as the oriental equivalent of the "extremism in defense of liberty is no vice" stand popular among ultranationalists in western countries. Imbued with a corrupted version of samurai spirit, a distain for "gaijin", (foreign barbarians), and a belief in the destiny of the Japanese race to lead Asia into world dominance, these young firebrands were determined to remove from the political scene any "corrupting influence" among the Emperor's advisors (ie: any politician, diplomat, or senior officer who was conciliatory, or insufficiently hostile toward the west).If a government official made a decision not popular with the military, he might get a very unpleasant visit by a Army, or Naval officer.
"Chennault is an egotistical maverick alarmist, and obsessed with the Orient!"Why did they not listen to these reports? Or, moreover, why did they see them as insane?