Tachikawa Ki-36

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Ki-36
Type Two-seat Army Co-operation Aircraft
Manufacturer Tachikawa
Maiden flight 20 April 1938
Primary users Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
Royal Thai Air Force
Produced 1938 - 1944
Number built 1,334
Variants Tachikawa Ki-55

The Tachikawa Ki-36 (codenamed Ida in allied code) was a Japanese army-cooperation aircraft of the Second World War.

The Ki-36 was a two-seat, low-wing monoplane with a single piston-engine and a fixed, tailwheel-type undercarriage.

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[edit] Design and development

The prototype, fitted with a 450hp (336kW) Hitachi Ha13 engine, first flew on 20th April 1938. Having outperformed the Mitsubishi Ki-35 in comparative trials, the Ki-36 was designated the Army Type 98 Direct Co-operation Aircraft and ordered into production in November 1938.

Production ended in January 1944 after a total of 1,334 had been built.

[edit] Operational history

The Ki-36 first saw action in China where it saw success. Later, in the Pacific, it proved excessively vulnerable to opposing fighters. It was redeployed to the safer theatre of China.

Towards the end of the war, the Ki-36 was employed as a kamikaze with a bomb of 500-kg (1,102-lb) fitted internally.

[edit] Variants

Ki-55
Trainer version.
Ki-72
An evolved version with a 600-hp (447-kW) Hitachi Ha-38 engine and retractable undercarriage, not built.

[edit] Operators

Flag of the People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Flag of Indonesia Indonesia
  • Indonesian People's Security Force
Flag of Japan Japan
Flag of Thailand Thailand

[edit] Specifications (Ki-36)

Data from The Concise Guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II [1]

General characteristics

  • Crew: 2
  • Length: 8.00m (25ft 3in)
  • Wingspan: 11.80m (38ft 8.5in)
  • Height: 3.64m (11ft 11.25in)
  • Wing area: 20m² (215.29ft²)
  • Empty weight: 1,247kg (2,749lb)
  • Loaded weight: kg (lb)
  • Useful load: kg (kg)
  • Max takeoff weight: 1,660kg (3,660lb)
  • Powerplant: 1× Hitachi Ha-13a 9-cylinder radial 2, 380kW (510hp)

Performance

Armament

  • one fixed, forward-firing 7.7mm (0.303in) machine-gun , one flexible 7.7mm (0.303in) machine-gun in rear cockpit, up to 150kg (331lb) external bombload.

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Mondey 1996, p.246.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Francillon, René J. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. London: Putnam Aeronautical, 1987. ISBN 0-85177-801-1.
  • Mondey, David. The Concise guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II. London: Chancellor, 1996. ISBN 1 85152 966 7.

[edit] See also

Related development Tachikawa Ki-55

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