Which Japanese fighter was the predecessor of the "Reisen?"
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Mitsubishi A5M The Mitsubishi A5M, formal Japanese Navy designation Mitsubishi Navy Type 96 Carrier-based Fighter (九六式艦上戦闘機), experimental Navy designation Mitsubishi Navy Experimental 9-Shi Carrier Fighter, company designation Mitsubishi Ka-14, was a Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft. It was the world's first monoplane shipboard fighter to enter service and the direct predecessor of the famous Mitsubishi A6M "Zero". The Allied reporting name was Claude.
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Mitsubishi A6M Zero The Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" is a long-range fighter aircraft, manufactured by Mitsubishi Aircraft Company, a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945. The A6M was designated as the Mitsubishi Navy Type 0 carrier fighter (零式艦上戦闘機 , rei-shiki-kanjō-sentōki ) , or the Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen. The A6M was usually referred to by its pilots as the "Reisen" (zero fighter), "0" being the last digit of the imperial year 2600 (1940) when it entered service with the Imperial Navy. The official Allied reporting name was "Zeke", although the use of the name "Zero" was later adopted by the Allies as well.
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Saburō Sakai Sub-Lieutenant Saburō Sakai (坂井 三郎 , Sakai Saburō , 25 August 1916 – 22 September 2000) was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace (""Gekitsui-O"", 撃墜王) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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Fighter units of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Fighter units of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force are squadrons of fighter aircraft dedicated to the defense of Japan. One of their main activities is providing Quick Reaction Alert intercepts to Chinese and Russian aircraft nearing or violating Japanese airspace. In 2016 Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) aircraft launched 851 times to intercept Chinese aircraft and 301 times in response to Russian aircraft.
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Messerschmitt Bf 109 The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force. The Bf 109 first saw operational service in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War and was still in service at the dawn of the jet age at the end of World War II in 1945. It was one of the most advanced fighters of the era, including such features as all-metal monocoque construction, a closed canopy, and retractable landing gear. It was powered by a liquid-cooled, inverted-V12 aero engine.
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Junkers J 2 The Junkers J 2 was the first all-metal aircraft intended as a dedicated military aircraft design, the first all-metal aircraft meant to be a fighter aircraft, and was the direct descendant of the pioneering J 1 all-metal aircraft technology demonstrator design of 1915.
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Junsen type submarine The Junsen type submarine (巡潜型潜水艦, "巡洋潜水艦" , Junsen-gata sensuikan, "Cruiser submarine" ) was a ship class of submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). There were four submarine designs of the Junsen type: J1, a modified J1, J2 and the J3.
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I-400-class submarine The I-400"-class submarine (伊四百型潜水艦 , I-yon-hyaku-gata sensuikan ) Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. The IJN called this type of submarine Sentoku" type submarine (潜特型潜水艦 , Sen-Toku-gata sensuikan, "Submarine Special" ) . The type name was shortened to Toku-gata Sensuikan (特型潜水艦 , Special Type Submarine ) . They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A "Seiran" aircraft underwater to their destinations. They were designed to surface, launch their planes, then quickly dive again before they were discovered. They also carried torpedoes for close-range combat. They are considered the strategic predecessors to today’s ballistic submarines, especially to the Regulus missile program begun about a decade after World War II.
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Nakajima A6M2-N The Nakajima A6M2-N (Navy Type 2 Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber) was a single-crew floatplane based on the Mitsubishi A6M Zero Model 11. The Allied reporting name for the aircraft was Rufe.
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Aichi M6A The Aichi M6A "Seiran" (晴嵐 ) was a submarine-launched attack floatplane designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. It was intended to operate from I-400 class submarines whose original mission was to conduct aerial attacks against the United States.
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Kamikaze (aircraft) Kamikaze (神風号 , Kamikaze-gō ) was a Mitsubishi Ki-15 "Karigane" aircraft, (registration J-BAAI) sponsored by the newspaper " Asahi Shimbun". It became famous on April 9, 1937, as the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly from Japan to Europe. The flight from Tokyo to London took 51 hours, 17 minutes and 23 seconds and was piloted by Masaaki Iinuma (1912–1941), with Kenji Tsukagoshi (1900–1943) serving as navigator.
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Nakajima Ki-6 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 Company in the 1930s. Initially used as an airliner, the militarized version was used by the Imperial Japanese Army in a variety of roles, ranging from medical evacuation to transport and training aircraft. It was used extensively in combat zones in Manchukuo and in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Air General Army The Air General Army (航空総軍 , Kōkū Sōgun ) was a Japanese military unit responsible for the defense of the country against Allied air raids during the last months of World War II. The Air General Army was formed in April 1945 to better coordinate Japan's air defenses in response to the mounting air offensive against Japan and the expected invasion of the country later that year. The army was disbanded following the end of the war.
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Raiden (series) Raiden (雷電 , Raiden ) is a scrolling shooter and a series of arcade games by Seibu Kaihatsu initially available in arcades in Japan and later distributed to other countries by Fabtek and other arcade game manufacturers.
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Kyushu Hikoki The Kyūshū Hikōki K.K. (九州飛行機 , Kyūshū Aircraft Company Ltd ) was a Japanese manufacturer of military aircraft during World War II. While it mainly manufactured other firms' designs, it was notable for the radical J7W "Shinden" fighter. Named after Kyushu island where the company was based.
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501st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (JASDF) The 501st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (第501飛行隊 (dai-gohyakuichi-hikoutai ) ) is a squadron of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force based at Hyakuri Air Base (Ibaraki Airport) in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It is equipped with RF-4 Phantom II and Kawasaki T-4 aircraft.
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Kawasaki Ka 87 The Dornier N was a bomber aircraft designed in Germany in the 1920s for production in Japan. Production of 28 aircraft started in Japan in 1927, as the Kawasaki Ka 87 (also known as the Type 87 Night Bomber). Designed and built as a landplane, its layout was strongly reminiscent of the Dornier flying boats of the same period; a parasol-wing, strut-braced monoplane with two engines, mounted in a push-pull nacelle above the wing. Some of the 28 examples built saw action in Manchuria in 1931.
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Koshiki-2 Experimental Fighter The Koshiki-2 Experimental Fighter was a prototype fighter aircraft designed by the Tokorozawa Aviation School of the Imperial Japanese Army. It was a single-engined, single-seat biplane and was the first single-seat fighter of wholly Japanese design and construction. Two were built and flown in 1922 and 1923 but no further production followed.
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Taifun (rocket) Taifun (German for "typhoon") was a German World War II anti-aircraft unguided rocket system. Waves of Taifuns were to be launched en masse into US B-17 Flying Fortress formations hoping for a direct hit. Although never deployed operationally, the system was copied in the US as the Loki, and the USSR as R-103.
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Kawanishi H8K The Kawanishi H8K (二式飛行艇, "Nishiki Hikōtei", Type 2 Flying Boat. Commonly called as 二式大型飛行艇 "Nishiki Ōgata Hikōtei", 二式大艇 "Nishiki Daitei" or "Nishiki Taitei", Type 2 Large-sized Flying Boat) was an Imperial Japanese Navy flying boat used by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II for maritime patrol duties. The Allied reporting name for the type was "Emily".
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Tokyo Koku Ki-107 The Tokyo Koku Ki-107 was a Japanese military training aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. The Ki-107 was a wooden-built low-wing two-seat monoplane with an open cockpit. Powered by a Hitachi Hatsukaze Ha-47 (Ha-11) inline piston engine it first flew in October 1943. The Japanese Army had ordered 450 as primary trainers as replacement for the Kokusai Ki-86 (a license built Bücker Bü 131 that used the same Ha-47 engine), but production was held up by air raids and only 29 had been delivered by the end of the war.
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Kage-ryū (Aizu) Kage-ryū (陰流 ) is a traditional school ("koryū") of swordsmanship ("kenjutsu") founded by Aizu Hyūga-no-Kami Iko (c.1452–1538) in c.1490. This school is also sometimes called Aizu Kage-ryū after the name of its founder. The founder was also known as Aizu Ikōsai Hisatada, and his surname is sometimes written as "Aisu" instead of "Aizu."