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    The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (隼, "Peregrine falcon"), formal Japanese designation Army Type 1 Fighter (一式戦闘機, Ichi-shiki sentōki) is a single-engine land-based...
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    The Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki (鍾馗, "Devil Queller") was a single-seat fighter-interceptor which was developed by the Nakajima Aircraft Company and operated...
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    The Nakajima Ki-27 (九七式戦闘機, Kyūnana-shiki sentōki, Type 97 Fighter) was the main fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service up until...
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    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...
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    Light), development of the Nakajima Kotobuki Sakae (栄, Prosperity) - powered both the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, and its own Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar fighters. Known...
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    The Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi (剣, "sabre") is a one-man kamikaze aircraft that was developed by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force during the closing...
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    Ki-45 (prototype) Kawasaki Ki-48 Kawasaki Ki-56 Mitsubishi A6M Mitsubishi C5M2 Nakajima B5N2 Nakajima J1N Nakajima Ki-43 Nakajima Ki-115 Tachikawa Ki-77...
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  • The Nakajima Ki-12 (中島 キ12, Ki-jyuni) was a private development Nakajima Aircraft Company after its failure to meet the 1935 requirement issued by the...
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  • The Nakajima Ki-116 was a late-World War II aircraft developed for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. It was essentially a Ki-84 Hayate with the Nakajima...
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    showed promise, but Nakajima discontinued development of the Ki-62 in order to focus on production of its Ki-43 and Ki-44 fighters. The Ki-62 design was not...
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    The Nakajima Ki-201 Karyū (中島 キ201 火龍, "Fire Dragon") was a Japanese jet fighter aircraft-attack aircraft project designed during the final stages of...
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    The Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu (呑龍, "Storm Dragon") was a twin-engine Japanese World War II heavy bomber. It was designed to carry out daylight bombing missions...
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    The Nakajima Ki-4 Kyūyon-shiki teisatsuki (九四式偵察機) was the last biplane reconnaissance aircraft of the Japanese Imperial Army. It saw combat service in...
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  • The Nakajima Ki-19 (中島 キ19, Ki-jyukyu) was an unsuccessful attempt by Nakajima Aircraft Company to meet a 1935 requirement issued by the Japanese government...
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    The Nakajima Ki-87 was a Japanese prototype high-altitude fighter-interceptor of World War II. It was a single seat, exhaust-driven turbo-supercharged...
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    combat against the Japanese Navy's A6M Zero and the Japanese Army's Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar". The British attempted to lighten their Buffalos by removing...
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    Kawasaki staged a fly-off between two Ki-61 prototypes and the Nakajima Ki-43-I, a pre-production Nakajima Ki-44-I, a defector-flown Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Goudkov...
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    mission over Hollandia, Dutch East Indies, he shot down a Zero and a Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar", bringing his total to five aerial victories and hence earning...
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  • Thumbnail for Nakajima Ki-8
    The Nakajima Ki-8 (キ8, Ki-hachi) was an unsuccessful attempt by the Nakajima Aircraft Company to interest the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in a two-seat...
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    his Nakajima Ki-43 to ram a B-24J Liberator, when his guns failed to fire during a sustained attack lasting over 50 minutes by Ki-43II and Kawasaki Ki-45s...
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    The Nakajima Ki-6 (九五式二型練習機, Kyūgo-shiki nigata renshuki) was a licensed-produced version of the Fokker Super Universal transport built by Nakajima Aircraft...
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    Ki-46 (Dinah) and a Nippon Kokusai Ki-86 (Cyprus). After years of being in storage in various locations, and being misidentified as a Nakajima Ki-43 (Oscar)...
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    The Nakajima Ki-34 was a Japanese light transport of World War II. It was a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane; the undercarriage was of tailwheel type with...
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    initial aerial victory, shooting down a Mitsubishi A6M "Zero", and a Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar" over Buna (during the Battle of Buna-Gona). For this action...
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    G4M bomber and a Nakajima Ki-43, and followed this up ten days later by shooting down another twin-engined bomber, a Mitsubishi Ki-46. On September 23...
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    runway. On 25 December, the JAAF returned, reinforced by Ki-21s of 12th Sentai and Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusas (Oscars) of the 64th Sentai (Colonel Tateo Katō's...
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  • spelling alphabet (NATO phonetic alphabet) Oscar, Allied codename for the Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa, a World War II Japanese fighter aircraft Oscar-class submarine...
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    The Nakajima Ki-11 (キ11 (航空機), Ki-jyuichi Kokūki) was an unsuccessful attempt by Nakajima Aircraft Company to meet a 1935 requirement issued by the Japanese...
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    Nakajima Ki-43, as well as the Navy's new A6M2, an initial production batch was ordered as the Army Type 100 Command Reconnaissance Plane Model 1 (Ki-41-I)...
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    fighters with lightweight structures, epitomised by the Nakajima Ki-27 and the later Nakajima Ki-43. A requirement was issued at the same time for a lighter...
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