Turkey Shoot?

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

On the subject of Japanese air patrols, I recall reading in a book about the Bowfin how the Japanese had fitted radar to some of their planes late in the war. If so, when did this happen and how effective was it?

Here's one example. The Kyūshū Q1W Tokai ( "Eastern Sea"), was a land-based anti-submarine patrol bomber aircraft with radar developed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. The Allied code name was Lorna.

The design may have been derived from the German Junkers Ju 88 medium bomber, the Japanese Navy having received some examples for technical evaluation during the war. The radar antennae were located on the back fuselage near the tail.

The IJN ordered development as the Tokai in September 1942, and the first test flight took place in September 1943. It finally entered service in January 1945. The Q1W carried two low-power engines, allowing for long periods of low-speed flight, and was the first purpose-designed anti-submarine warfare aircraft in the world. Due to lack of resources some models were constructed solely of wood. Given their rather low production rate and how briefly they were in service not much is know about how effective these planes were.

[JSF]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Here's one example. The Kyūshū Q1W Tokai ( "Eastern Sea"), was a land-based anti-submarine patrol bomber aircraft with radar developed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. The Allied code name was Lorna.

The design may have been derived from the German Junkers Ju 88 medium bomber, the Japanese Navy having received some examples for technical evaluation during the war. The radar antennae were located on the back fuselage near the tail.

The IJN ordered development as the Tokai in September 1942, and the first test flight took place in September 1943. It finally entered service in January 1945. The Q1W carried two low-power engines, allowing for long periods of low-speed flight, and was the first purpose-designed anti-submarine warfare aircraft in the world. Due to lack of resources some models were constructed solely of wood. Given their rather low production rate and how briefly they were in service not much is know about how effective these planes were.

Look at your date....the end of the war was for gone conclusion. This plane was of no consequence for the Japanese war effort. I would venture that we (USA) derived more benefit from it's existence after the war than the Japanese Empire during the war.

[Shaffer4]

[quote=JSF]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

If there are 2 examples were the allies excelled it was our ability to read thier mail and turn darkness into light. Everything else was academic from that point on.

:rotfl:

[Torplexed]

Another area the Allies excelled in was the ability to build stuff....a lot of it. The Second World War more than any other war was a war of material attrition. This situtation was particularly acute in the Pacific where a secondary industrial power challenged the mightiest industrial base on earth.

The War in the Pacific simply put wasn't a fair fight and Japan's industrial infastructure back then simply wasn't up to the myriad demands of the war. During the 1930s, by a prodigious but an ill-planned and poorly organized effort, certain industries vital to Japan's war purposes had been built up. However, Japan's industrial base's footprint wasn't widened in the process. Thus, while total aircraft production was forced-fed into a 1300% increase from 1931 to 1941 this came at a price to other war vital industries such as electrial equipment in which production scarely increased by 30% between the war years of 1941 and 1944. Needless to say, exotic for the time technologies, like radar suffered and lagged as a result.

Those Japanese did at least have a decent torpedo tho. That was the USA's big oversight.