Japanese WW2 Airplanes, this covers any aircraft operated by Japan during world war two. So would cover their bombers, fighters, Recce aircraft, trainers and any aircraft that they captured or acquired from other countries. For instance, Germany sent a Bf109 and a couple of other Aircraft for evaluation purposes to Japan. And Japan license built the Mercedes DB 601A aero engine for use in their Kawasaki Ki 61 fighter, producing perhaps the best land based fighter of the war. Also Japanese fighter aircraft were constantly improved during the war in response to the Allies growing superiority of fighter design and the use of tactics that nullified the Japanese nimbleness. So there were many different marks of the same aircraft. And in some cases where the engine was changed a complete new aircraft was created. As in the case of the Ki61 the license built DB601A was not a reliable engine due to redesign and poor quality control. So it was changed for the Mitsubishi radial engine thus producing Japans best fighter of the war, the Ki100.
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