Specifications (H6K4)
Data from Warplanes of the Second World War, Volume Five: Flying Boats; Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War
General characteristics
- Crew: 9
- Length: 25.63 m (84 ft 3 in)
- Wingspan: 40.00 m (131 ft 2 in)
- Height: 6.27 m (20 ft 6 in)
- Wing area: 170 m2 (1,830 ft2)
- Empty weight: 11,707 kg (25,755 lb)
- Loaded weight: 17,000 kg (37,400 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 21,500 kg (47,300 lb)
- Powerplant: 4 × Mitsubishi Kinsei 43 or 46 14-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engines, 746 kW (1,000 hp) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 331 km/h (211 mph)
- Cruise speed: 216 km/h (138 mph)
- Range: 6,580 km (4,112 mi)
- Service ceiling: 9,610 m (31,520 ft)
- Rate of climb: 370 m/min (1,213 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 100 kg/m2 (20 lb/ft2)
- Power/mass: 0.17 kW/kg (0.11 hp/lb)
Armament
- 1× 7.7 mm (0.30 in) Type 97 machine gun in nose
- 1× Type 97 machine gun in spine
- 2× Type 97 machine guns in waist blisters
- 1× 20 mm Type 99 cannon in tail turret
- 2× 800 kg (1,764 lb) torpedoes or 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) of bombs
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