Specifications (Ki-44-IIb)
Data from Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki ('Tojo'), Aircraft in Profile no.255; Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War
General characteristics
- Crew: one, pilot
- Length: 8.84 m (29 ft)
- Wingspan: 9.45 m (31 ft 01 in)
- Height: 3.12 m (10 ft 23 in)
- Wing area: 15 m² (161 ft²)
- Empty weight: 2,105 kg (4,641 lb)
- Loaded weight: 2,764 kg (6,094 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 2,995 kg (6,602 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Nakajima Ha-109 Army Type 2 fourteen cylinder air-cooled radial engine, 1,133 kW (1,519 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 605 km/h (376 mph)
- Cruise speed: 400 km/h (249 mph)
- Stall speed: 150 km/h (93 mph)
- Range: 1,700 km (1,060 mi)
- Service ceiling: 11,200 m (36,750 ft)
- Rate of climb: 5,000 m--4 min 17 sec (3,940 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 200 kg/m² (41 lb/ft²)
- Power/mass: 0.38 kW/kg (0.13 hp/lb)
Armament
- 4× 12.7 mm (.50 in) Ho-103 machine guns, two synchronized cowl mounted (perhaps 657 rpm rate each), and one in each wing (900 rpm rate of fire each), 760 rounds in all. The 12.7x81 cartridge propelled the 35.4 g AP bullet 760 m/s, the 38 g HE 796 m/s, and the 33 g HE (2.2%) 770 m/s, with an effective firing range of 750 m. Not always reliable.
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