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Kawasaki Ki-100
Fighter · Japan · WWII (1939–1945)
The Kawasaki Ki-100 (キ100) is a single-seat single-engine monoplane fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (IJAAS) during World War II. The Japanese Army designation was "Type 5 Fighter" . It did not have an Allied code name.
Specifications
- Category
- Fixed Wing
- Sub-Category
- Fighter
- Domain
- Defence
- Era
- WWII (1939–1945)
- Country
- Japan
- Status
- Retired
- Engine
- 1× 14-cylinder two row air-cooled radial engine
- Thrust / Power
- 1500 hp (1120 kW)
- Length (ft)
- 29
- Wingspan (ft)
- 39
- Empty Weight (lb)
- 5567
- MTOW (lb)
- 7705
- Endurance (hr)
- 3 hours 30 minutes
- Service Ceiling (ft)
- 36089
- Range (mi)
- 870
- Max Speed (mph)
- 360
- Armament
- Guns: 2 × 20 mm caliber| fuselage-mounted Ho-5 cannons (400 rpg) and 2 × wing-mounted Ho-103 machine guns (500 rpg); Bombs: 2 × bombs, carried in lieu of drop tanks on same hardpoints outboard of the undercarriage; Hardpoints: 2 × external drop tanks, carried outboard of the undercarriage legs