NAKAJIMA B5N-2 Type 97 Model 12
Allied Code Name "KATE"
CFS3 - V2.85.05
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NAKAJIMA B5N-2 Type 97 Model 12
This aircraft was built by SARGE using version 2.85.05 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. The 1% version of this plane is based on Stephan Seybolt's excellent and highly detailed 3D model. Stephan also did the cockpit textures.
The external textures are by Tomas Oszlar. Tomas has painted this aircraft to represent the B5N2 Kate AII-316 in Pearl Harbor Kaga markings, Lead aircraft, 3rd chutai, horizontal bombers, Pilot: Lt. Yo****aka Mikami.
Please view thier readme for additional credits.
The 144 B5Ns involved in the Pearl HarBor raid contributed greatly to the heavy damage done to the US Navy fleet on Dec. 7th, 1941.
During the following months, the B5N2, as Japan's main torpedo plane, was involved in several carrier battles (Coral Sea, Midway...) which resulted in the sinking of the USS Yorktown, Lexington, Wasp and Hornet
The B5N2 Model 12, or Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber Model 12, first flew in December 1939; it was externally similar to the older variant aside from its engine, a Nakajima Sakae 11 fourteen-cylinder radial. A tighter-fitting cowling was used, to improve pilot view and reduce drag, and a small hub was fitted to the propeller to further reduce drag and improve the engine cooling.
Commander Mitsuo Fuchida was the aerial commander for the Hawaiian Operation; he flew in a B5N2 as observer/bombardier, and was also lead bombardier of the 49 Kates used as level bombers in the first wave. All of the B5N2 level bombers carried a single 1,653-lb. bomb made from a remanufactured armor-piercing shell.
The 40 planes earmarked for the actual torpedo attack were led by Lt. Cdr. Shigeharu Mutara, considered the finest torpedo bomber pilot in the Imperial Navy if not the world. His planes were carrying a specially modified torpedo for use in shallow harbors like Pearl; the idea had been gleaned from study of the British attack on Taranto, Italy, in December 1940, where Swordfish torpedo bombers had sunk or crippled a number of Italian battleships.
The US Navy lost two battleships sunk outright, three more sunk but recoverable, and three damaged heavily (the Pennsylvania, in dry dock, was damaged by dive bombers and strafing fighters).
In the carrier battles of 1942, the Nakajima torpedo bomber played a prominent role in sinking the American carriers Lexington, Yorktown, and Hornet. But in all those battles losses were very heavy; Lt. Cdr. Murata, for example, was killed in the Battle of Santa Cruz, shot down by US Navy fighter ace Lt. (j.g.) Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa.
Murata was just one of seven kills Vejtasa scored that day, October 26, 1942 (in 1969, Vejtasa, as a captain, was commander of Miramar NAS, and was one of the founders of the “Top Gun” training program).
The Kate did most of its later combat flying from land installations, figuring prominently in the Solomons, Marianas, and Philippines campaigns. Its last carrier-based engagement was the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944. Insufficient performance, and poor crew and fuel-tank protection, contributed to staggering losses in all these campaigns, and so the Kate was relegated to second line and training units by the end of 1944.
The B5N2 found a new lease on life because it still had excellent long range endurance; it was used for maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrol, in areas where Allied fighters were unlikely to be encountered.
The B5N2 gave Japanese convoys desperately needed escort against the USN submarines. Some B5N2s were fitted with a primitive form of ASV (Air-to-Surface-Vessel) radar, with antennas fitted along the rear fuselage sides and the wing leading edges, and others were given Jikitanchiki magnetic airborne submarine detection gear.
One thousand, one hundred and forty-nine B5Ns were built, 669 by the parent company Nakajima between 1936 and 1941, 200 by Aichi in 1942-43, and 280 by the Naval Air Arsenal at Hiro in 1942-43. PD. Alexander
Allied Code Name "KATE"
CFS3 - V2.85.05
AvHistory 1% Aircraft General Statement and Installation Instructions
It is the intention of the AvHistory 1% project to over time build the most accurate aircraft that the CFS3 software can support. The development of a 1% aircraft requires specific and in many cases dramatic changes to the aircraft delivered with the MS game as well as the addition of aircraft built from the ground up by third parties which were never included in the original MS game. We believe that because the AvHistory 1% aircraft are materially different they should not be mixed with "box stock" aircraft in online combat.
All the planes 1% listed for download are qualified for use in our AvHistory William Tell Meet Air Combat Ladder. For information and to get the sign up sheet for the ladder please go to the LINKS section at http://www.avhistory.org
No AvHistory 1% aircraft maybe provided for download from any site without express written consent of AvHistory. Additionally, direct linking to our download site is forbidden.
NAKAJIMA B5N-2 Type 97 Model 12
This aircraft was built by SARGE using version 2.85.05 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. The 1% version of this plane is based on Stephan Seybolt's excellent and highly detailed 3D model. Stephan also did the cockpit textures.
The external textures are by Tomas Oszlar. Tomas has painted this aircraft to represent the B5N2 Kate AII-316 in Pearl Harbor Kaga markings, Lead aircraft, 3rd chutai, horizontal bombers, Pilot: Lt. Yo****aka Mikami.
Please view thier readme for additional credits.
The 144 B5Ns involved in the Pearl HarBor raid contributed greatly to the heavy damage done to the US Navy fleet on Dec. 7th, 1941.
During the following months, the B5N2, as Japan's main torpedo plane, was involved in several carrier battles (Coral Sea, Midway...) which resulted in the sinking of the USS Yorktown, Lexington, Wasp and Hornet
The B5N2 Model 12, or Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber Model 12, first flew in December 1939; it was externally similar to the older variant aside from its engine, a Nakajima Sakae 11 fourteen-cylinder radial. A tighter-fitting cowling was used, to improve pilot view and reduce drag, and a small hub was fitted to the propeller to further reduce drag and improve the engine cooling.
Commander Mitsuo Fuchida was the aerial commander for the Hawaiian Operation; he flew in a B5N2 as observer/bombardier, and was also lead bombardier of the 49 Kates used as level bombers in the first wave. All of the B5N2 level bombers carried a single 1,653-lb. bomb made from a remanufactured armor-piercing shell.
The 40 planes earmarked for the actual torpedo attack were led by Lt. Cdr. Shigeharu Mutara, considered the finest torpedo bomber pilot in the Imperial Navy if not the world. His planes were carrying a specially modified torpedo for use in shallow harbors like Pearl; the idea had been gleaned from study of the British attack on Taranto, Italy, in December 1940, where Swordfish torpedo bombers had sunk or crippled a number of Italian battleships.
The US Navy lost two battleships sunk outright, three more sunk but recoverable, and three damaged heavily (the Pennsylvania, in dry dock, was damaged by dive bombers and strafing fighters).
In the carrier battles of 1942, the Nakajima torpedo bomber played a prominent role in sinking the American carriers Lexington, Yorktown, and Hornet. But in all those battles losses were very heavy; Lt. Cdr. Murata, for example, was killed in the Battle of Santa Cruz, shot down by US Navy fighter ace Lt. (j.g.) Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa.
Murata was just one of seven kills Vejtasa scored that day, October 26, 1942 (in 1969, Vejtasa, as a captain, was commander of Miramar NAS, and was one of the founders of the “Top Gun” training program).
The Kate did most of its later combat flying from land installations, figuring prominently in the Solomons, Marianas, and Philippines campaigns. Its last carrier-based engagement was the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944. Insufficient performance, and poor crew and fuel-tank protection, contributed to staggering losses in all these campaigns, and so the Kate was relegated to second line and training units by the end of 1944.
The B5N2 found a new lease on life because it still had excellent long range endurance; it was used for maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrol, in areas where Allied fighters were unlikely to be encountered.
The B5N2 gave Japanese convoys desperately needed escort against the USN submarines. Some B5N2s were fitted with a primitive form of ASV (Air-to-Surface-Vessel) radar, with antennas fitted along the rear fuselage sides and the wing leading edges, and others were given Jikitanchiki magnetic airborne submarine detection gear.
One thousand, one hundred and forty-nine B5Ns were built, 669 by the parent company Nakajima between 1936 and 1941, 200 by Aichi in 1942-43, and 280 by the Naval Air Arsenal at Hiro in 1942-43. PD. Alexander
