SPECIFICATIONS
　
Wingspan:11.437m, length: 8.832m, height: 3.085m, empty mass: 1,580kg,
start mass: 2,048kg,
engine: Nakajima Ha-25(975hp))x 1 , max speed: 495km/h
initial climb: 990m/min.,
ceiling: 11,733m, range w/max.fuel: 2,600km , armament: 12.7mmMG x 2, bomb 60kg
Crew: 1
　

status 100%, 20/11/' 05

Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa 1938
Japan
No matter what eticent as for the performances, the army realized that it could nevertheless have need for such a plane with an operating range sufficient fo the countryside of Singapore. The "Hatabusa" was Zero of Japanese Amy, placing like him it handiness with the top of protection. Ki-43-I was less gifted tan its alter ego of the marien, His speed and its armament was too weak. It remained about it, in spite of the fact that it is outclassed by other Japanese fighters, a prolific apparatus.

日本陸軍最大の生産量を記録した戦闘機です。その数5,751機にも及びます。しかし性能が優秀だったわけではありません。低速、貧弱な武装、被弾に弱いなどいい所がありません。しかし後継機が皆欠陥を持っていたゆえに生産されつづけた事情があったのです。名前だけが一人歩きした好例でしょう。しかしその姿はシンプルで美しいと思います。日本にドイツやアメリカの大馬力エンジンさえあれば、この"隼"も高性能機になったでしょう。