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The Mitsubishi A5M, Japanese Navy designation was "Type 96 carrier-based fighter" (九六式艦上戦闘機) was a Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft. It was the world's first monoplane shipboard fighter and the direct ancestor of the famous Mitsubishi A6M 'Zero'. The Allied reporting name was Claude.
Role Carrier-based fighter
Manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd
Designer Jiro Horikoshi
First flight 4 February 1935
Introduction 1936
Retired 1945
Primary user Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
Number built 1,094
Variants Mitsubishi Ki-18
Mitsubishi Ki-33
General characteristics
Crew: One
Length: 7.55 m (24 ft 9¼ in)
Wingspan: 11.0 m (36 ft 1 in)
Height: 3.20 m (10 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 17.8 m² (191.6 ft²)
Empty weight: 1,216 kg (2,681 lb)
Loaded weight: 1,705 kg (3,759 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 1,822 kg[19] (4,017 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Nakajima Kotobuki 41 9-cylinder radial engine, 585 kW (785 hp) at 3,000 m (9,840 ft)
Performance
Maximum speed: 440 km/h (237 knots, 273 mph) at 3,000 m (9,840 ft)[19]
Range: 1,200 km (649 NM, 746 mi)
Service ceiling: 9,800 m (32,150 ft)
Rate of climb: m/s (ft/min)
Wing loading: 95.87 kg/m² (19.6 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 0.34 kW/kg (0.21 hp/lb)
Armament
Guns: 2× 7.7 mm Type 89 machine gun (0.303 in) fuselage-mounted machine guns
Before there was Zeke, there was Claude, the mount on which Japan's best naval aces cut their teeth over China. An elegantly deadly little plane.
LoL I got my first RB kill in this thing and that kill won us the match!
Yup it was a nice match XD