Mitsubishi A5M
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The Mitsubishi A5M, formal Japanese Navy designation Mitsubishi Navy Type 96 Carrier-based Fighter (九六式艦上戦闘機), experimental Navy designation Mitsubishi Navy Experimental 9-Shi Carrier Fighter, company designation Mitsubishi Ka-14, was a WWII-era Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft. The Type number is from the last two digits of the Japanese imperial year 2596 (1936) when it entered service with the Imperial Navy.
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An A5M2b with arrestor hook and drop tank | |
Role | Carrier-based fighter |
Manufacturer | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
Designer | Jiro Horikoshi |
First flight | 4 February 1935 |
Introduction | 1936 |
Retired | 1945 |
Primary user | Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service |
Number built | 1,094 |
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It was the world's first low-wing monoplane shipboard fighter to enter service[note 1] and the predecessor to the famous Mitsubishi A6M "Zero". The Allied reporting name was Claude.