3/3- Secret Japanese Aircraft of WWII

History Channel - Starting in the 1930's, Japanese aircraft designers made incredible strides, and by the time hostilities broke out, the Imperial Air Force had some of the most sophisticated and effective planes in the world. SECRET JAPANESE AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II traces the development of the Japanese industry and its famous creations, like the Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. But the program also exposes the frantic, top-secret programs to produce weapons that would have made these legendary planes seem tame by comparison. With the help of some of the world's foremost aviation historians, HISTORY UNDERCOVER® reveals how, at the end of the war, Japan was close to unveiling a new generation of rocket and jet-powered planes that could have turned the tide of the conflict.

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Science & Technology

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• world
• war
• II
• fighter
• aircraft
• secret
• airplane
• warbird
• jet
• engine
• navy

[playaN3]

JAPANESE??? I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS PLANE WAS GERMAN

[442hoeky]

Woulda, shoulda, coulda... didna - lost the war.

[RedwihteGame]

Actually the rocket were first built by the Germans

[elRampage]

@sfasrarsa r u surprised? if theyneed weapons they can "borrow" some from other nations. if they need lowly cheap traded goods without the cost of workers, they "borrow" from the chinese. if they need some history, they can "borrow" some from the natives

[sfasrarsa]

so the american rocket technology was stolen from Japannnnn.............

[mamonycabron]

komet...

[greyderH2]

it seemed to me or they are all German

[mysteryman3666]

@playaN3 The Japanese are closely connnected polictically to the germans. They even had their version of the Bf-109 and Me-262 Jet.

[grahamkeithtodd]

@skeilak well said old son...your so right about them sos

[skeilak]

@trainium323

Thank you. I often do that.

But I believe the Aliens were primarily helping the Nazis.

That's how they got their flying saucers, and their secret subterranean base in Antarctica.

[trainium323]

@skeilak your forgetting the aliens

[skeilak]

@S15Alfi

The Zeros "dominated" the Pacific war, until they met better aircraft, or those flown by better pilots.

Note the success of the American pilots of the Flying Tigers, in their P-40's, over China.

Or that of US Navy pilots, in their Wildcats, or US Army pilots in P-38s..

Of course, by the time the Hellcats and Corsairs came on-line, killing Zeros was easier than swatting flies.

And when exactly, did any Western soldiers show any disloyalty to their countries?