Re: Various Mitsubishi projects and prototypes

[tom!]

Thanks for your kind words my dear windswords-san.

Please enjoy Mitsubishi The Army Type 93 Heavy-Bomber(Ki-1) prototype and midified experimental aircraft side view.
Source ; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAPANESE AIRCRAFT VOL.1 MITSUBISHI'S AIRCRAFT CONTENTS

Another information.

Index of /image/idop/bww1/ki1

Hi.

Ki-1 Model 2 original IJA handbook from National Diet Library online catalogue:
https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/8815743

Yours

tom!

 

[hesham]

Hi,

what was these Mitsubishi Projects?;

- 15-shi twin engines carrier-based attack aircraft
- 19-shi land attack aircraft
- 13-shi twin-engined three-seat fighter-bomber
- 20-shi armored fighter
- 13-shi ship-fighte
- 16-shi ship-fighter
- 11-shi sea bomber

 

[snark]

Hi,


- 19-shi land attack aircraft

Hi Hesham

I'm away from my library, but I believe the information below came from:

Ishiguro, Ryusuke and Januszewski, Tadeusz, Japanese Anti-submarine Aircraft in the Pacific War. MMP Books, 2018. ISBN 978-83-65281-39-5

Regards, Harry

19-Shi Land-based Attack Plane

• Requirements:
  • Wooden structure
  • Speed: 463 kph (290 mph; 250 kts) at 2000 m altitude, 500 kph (310 mph; 270 kts) at 5000 m altitude
  • Range: 3700 km (2400 mi, 2000 nm) with 750 kg bombload
  • 2 x 1800 – 2200hp Mitsubishi engines
  • 2 - 4 x 13mm machine guns + 1 x 20mm cannon
• Contender:
  • Mitsubishi (M-80) 東山 Tozan
  • Cancelled and elements morphed into 19-Shi Patrol Plane design

 

[hesham]

From this book.

 

[NamedUser_]

From this book.

What are 104/109b? Some sort of large fighter?

 

[Arjen]

William Green describes the Ki.104:

[...] experimental interceptor, was essentially a Ki.67-Ib with a new nose section mounting an Army 75-mm cannon just slightly smaller than a standard field piece.

Two Ki.67-Ib aircraft were converted, the second with a 'completely redesigned cannon mounting and nose section'.

Green on the Ki.109:

[...] a turbo-supercharged version of the fighter which would be capable of engaging the Superfortress at its own altitude.

22 standard Ki.67-Ib airframes were converted as Ki.109a with the original engines.
The subsequent 22 Ki.109b were all-new aircraft:

[...] production continued as the Ki.109b, the new version having an extensively modified fuselage built from the ground up as a fighter.

Green writes supercharged Ha.104 Ru engines were never fitted, the aircraft 'were incapable of engaging the high-flying Superfortresses'.

René J Francillon's Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Putnam 1995, says one Ki.109 prototype flew with Ha.104 Ru engines, but it was never used operationally.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

as I know,there was a project from Mitsubishi G6M,beside those variants;
G6M1,G6M1-K & G6M1L-2 ?.

 

[blackkite]

Hi!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjCkQdlq9dA&t=331s