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[scissorsandplanes]

Something like this, Chicharrero?

[chicharrero]

Originally Posted by scissorsandplanes

Something like this, Chicharrero?

You're the best

[Falco]

This is some serious Japanese Aviation buff fan service... I have been tallying these for a single sweep purchase to reinforce the Japanese side of my S&P hangar... Please Keep'm coming!

[Don Boose]

Great choice of C6N1, Bruno.

Tail Number 762-13 was assigned to the 11th Reconnaissance Squadron [Teisatsuki 11 Hikōtai] of the 762nd Naval Air Group [Dai 762 Kaigun Kōkūtai] based at Kanoya Naval Air Base in Japan in April 1945. The 11th Recon Squadron was also known as the Kagayaki Butai [Gleaming, Brilliant, or Shining Unit] and several of the aircraft, including 762-13, carried the famous “Z-flag” [flown by Admiral Togo at the Battle of Tsushima and by Admiral Nagumo when he launched the Pearl Harbor attack] on the side of the fuselage.

Don

[Butelczynski]

Little known episode of late WW2 were Japanese efforts to obtain current info on Soviet military presence near borders.One of those was was reported single C6N1 photographing Sakhalin Island and Khabarovsk-Vladivostok region since Jan 1945 till May.Soviets tried to shoot it down but they didn't have any plane fast enough in Far East to catch it and reports of sightings were often far too late to respond.

The same scenario was played along Mongolian border with one of Dinah recon planes.

[Rata]

Originally Posted by chicharrero

You're the best

Indubitably. I see he's even provided a long range fuel tank for this IJN 'rocket'.

[wireandpaper]

Indubitably, ineffably and inenarrably one of the most elegant Japanese planes.
If my memory is correct there were a few Saiun night fighters with an oblique gun.

[Don Boose]

Yes wireandpaper, the C6N1-S was the night fighter version, with a crew of two and a pair of 20mm Type 99 cannon or one 30mm Type 5 cannon mounted in the cockpit between the pilot and the second aircrew firing obliquely upward. I THINK these aircraft were only assigned to the 302nd Naval Air Group (tail code ョD), an air defense unit located at Atsugi in the summer of 1945. And agree with your assessment of the appearance of the C6N.

Source of the image of ョD-295 is https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=15457

Don

[scissorsandplanes]

Originally Posted by wireandpaper

Indubitably, ineffably and inenarrably one of the most elegant Japanese planes.
If my memory is correct there were a few Saiun night fighters with an oblique gun.

If it had not been for the night and my natural need for some sleep, I would already have designed that before you could ask.

[scissorsandplanes]

Now, that wasn't so hard after all.