The Nakajima B5N (Japanese: 中島 B5N, Allied reporting name "Kate") was the standard carrier-based torpedo bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) for much of World War II. It also served as a high level bomber.

2022年6月25日 · The B5N, codenamed “Kate” by ONI in 1941 was primarily deployed as a carrier-based aircraft, but later in the war as a land-based bomber. The B5N1 first saw action in the Second Sino-Japanese War, from 1938.

At Pearl Harbor, Japan’s most devastating aircraft was the Nakajima B5N2, also known as the “Kate” and the Type 97-3 Carrier Attack Aircraft. In the opening minutes of the attack, 40 Kates savaged Battleship Row with torpedoes. When they finished, Oklahoma and West Virginia had sunk, and California and Nevada were sinking.

2021年5月12日 · Page details technical specifications, development, and operational history of the Nakajima B5N (Kate) Carrier-Borne Torpedo Bomber Aircraft including pictures. The global defense reference actively compiled since 2003

The Nakajima B5N (Japanese: 中島 B5N, Allied reporting name "Kate") was the standard torpedo bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) for much of World War II. Although the B5N was substantially faster and more capable than its Allied counterparts, the TBD Devastator, Fairey Swordfish and Fairey...

2023年5月26日 · The “Kate” in particular made her maiden flight in January 1937 and was already nearing obsolescence by 1941, but still proved deadly effective and remained in service for the duration of the Second World War. The plane had a three-man crew: pilot, navigator/bombardier-observer, and radio operator/gunner.

2023年12月7日 · The B5N, codenamed "Kate" by ONI in 1941 was primarily deployed as a carrier-based aircraft, but later in the war as a land-based bomber. The B5N1 first saw action in the Second Sino-Japanese War, from 1938.

2015年10月20日 · Delays in an update made the B5N Japan’s main torpedo bomber through the war. On December 7, 1941, a force that included 143 Kates left carriers off Hawaii to attack Pearl Harbor; a Kate from Hiryu sank the battleship USS Arizona.

2014年10月2日 · The B5N “Kate” was the primary Japanese torpedo bomber in the first couple years of the war. For the Pearl Harbor raid, Kate’s carried two non-standard load outs. Many had torpedoes with extra wooden fins to keep them from running to …

2018年5月31日 · Officially known as the Nakajima B5N bomber, the “Kate” (the Allies' name for the aircraft) was a fearsome tool of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Air Service. First flown in 1937, within four years a fleet of these fast-moving aircraft was making its way across the Pacific aboard Japanese aircraft carriers.