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Kawasaki Ki 28

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Top speed
  
485 km/h

Length
  
7.9 m

Designer
  
Wingspan
  
12 m

First flight
  
1936

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Manufacturer
  
Kawasaki Aerospace Company

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The Kawasaki Ki-28 (キ28, Ki-Nijuhachi), World War II Allied reporting name "Bob", was an experimental fighter aircraft designed for the Imperial Japanese Army and meant as a replacement for the Kawasaki Ki-10. It flew in 1936, but was never produced for actual use as the Army choose the Nakajima Ki-27.

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Design & Development

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The Ki-28 was initially produced by Kawasaki Kōkūki Kōgyō K.K. in response to Japanese army specifications for a fighter to replace the existing Kawasaki Ki-10. In mid-1935, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi and Nakajima were instructed to build competitive prototypes. The Kawasaki design was based on its earlier, but unsuccessful Ki-5. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of all-metal construction, except for fabric-covered control surfaces, with a conventional tail unit, fixed tailskid landing gear and powered by a 596 kW (800 hp) Kawasaki Ha 9-II-Ko liquid-cooled inline V12 engine.

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Service trials proved that the Kawasaki Ki-28 was the fastest of the three contenders, but the Nakajima Ki-27 was by far the most maneuverable and had the lowest wing-loading, and on this basis was selected by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. Despite losing to the Ki-27, the Ki-28 provided Kawasaki with valuable experience which would later help with development of the Kawasaki Ki-60 and Kawasaki Ki-61 fighters.

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Mistakenly believing the Ki-28 to have entered production in Japan as the Army Type 97 Fighter, the Allies assigned it the reporting name "Bob" during World War II.

Military operators

 Japan
  • Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
  • Specifications

    Data from Famous Aircraft of the World, no.76: Japanese Army Experimental Fighters (1); Japanese Aircraft, 1910-1941

    General characteristics

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  • Crew: 1
  • Length: 7.9 m (25.92 ft)
  • Wingspan: 12 m (39.37 ft)
  • Height: 2.60 m (8.53 ft)
  • Wing area: 19 m² (204.52 ft²)
  • Empty weight: 1,420 kg (3,130 lb)
  • Useful load: 340 kg (750 lb)
  • Loaded weight: 1,760 kg (3,880 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Kawasaki Ha-9-II-Ko liquid-cooled in-line piston V-12 engine, 800 hp (597 kW)
  • Propellers: 1 propeller
  • Propeller diameter: 2.90 m (10 ft)
  • Performance

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  • Maximum speed: 485 km/h (262 kn, 301 mph)
  • Range: 1,000 km (540 nmi, 620 mi)
  • Service ceiling: 11,000 m (36,000 ft)
  • Wing loading: 92.6 kg/m² (18.97 lb/ft²)
  • Power/mass: 0.33 kW/kg (0.45 hp/kg; 0.20 hp/lb)
  • Time to altitude: 5 min. 10 sec. to 5,000 metres (16,000 ft)
  • Armament

  • Guns: 2 × 7.7 mm (.303 in) machine guns
  • References

    Kawasaki Ki-28 Wikipedia