Hi! As most of you know, today we have many Japanese Navy aircrafts, including late war D4Y, B7A and even a project that has never been in battle - A7M in Il-2. I think that a very good additional to them would be a Japanese late war Recon/Torpedo Bomber/Night fighter carrier-based plane Nakajima C6N "Saiun" (amer. code name "Myrt"). It is a very interesting plane and I would like to ask somebody to make it (I'm not so good in modding to do it myself). If you want to know about Saiun, then read the article below (it's from wiki
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The C6N originated from a 1942 Imperial Japanese Navy specification for a carrier-based reconnaissance plane with a top speed of 350 knots (650 km/h) at 6,000 m and range of 2,500 Nautical miles (4,960 km). Nakajima's initial proposal, designated N-50, was for a craft with two 1,000 hp engines housed in tandem in the fuselage, driving two propellers mounted on the wings. With the development of the 2,000 hp class Nakajima Homare engine though, this configuration was abandoned and Nakajima decided on a more conventional single-engine layout. However, the Homare's output turned out to be less than initially expected, so the design had to be optimized in other areas. The resulting aircraft was designed around a long and extremely narrow cylindrical fuselage, just large enough in diameter to accommodate the engine. The crew of three sat in tandem under a single canopy, while equipment was similarly arranged in a line along the fuselage. The C6N's low mounted laminar flow wing housed fuel tanks and was fitted with both Fowler and slit flaps and leading edge slats to lower the aircraft's landing speed to ease use aboard aircraft carriers. Like Nakajima's earlier B6N "Tenzan" torpedo bomber, the rudder was angled slightly forward to enable tighter packing on aircraft carriers.
The first flight was on 15 May 1943, with the prototype demonstrating a speed of 639 km/h (345 kt, 397 mph). Performance of the Homare engine was disappointing, especially power at altitude, and a series of 18 further prototypes and pre-production aircraft were built, before the Sauin was finally ordered into production in February 1944.
Although designed for carrier use, by the time it entered service in September 1944, there were few carriers left for it to operate from, so most were used from land bases. Its speed was exemplified by a famous telegraph sent after a successful mission: "No Grummans can catch us." The top speed of the Grumman F6F Hellcat was indeed of the same level, so overtaking a Saiun was out of the question.
A total of 463 aircraft were produced. A single prototype of a turbocharged development mounting a 4-blade propeller was built, this was called the C6N2 Saiun-kai. A night-fighter version C6N1-S with oblique-firing (Schräge Musik configuration) single 30 mm (or dual 20 mm) cannon and a torpedo carrying C6N1-B were also developed. The C6N1-B developed by Nakajima was not needed after Japan's aircraft carriers were destroyed. As Allied bombers came within reach of the Japanese home islands, there became a need for a first class night fighter. This led Nakajima to develop the C6N1-S by removing the observer and replacing him with two 20mm cannons. The C6N1-S's effectiveness was hampered by the lack of air-to-air radar, although it was fast enough to enjoy almost complete immunity from interception by Allied fighters.
Despite its speed and performance, on 15 August 1945, a C6N1 was the last aircraft to be shot down in World War II. Just five minutes later, the war was over and all Japanese aircraft were grounded.
Operators Japan Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
Naval Air Group Yokosuka Kokutai
121st Kokutai
131st Kokutai
132nd Kokutai
141st Kokutai
171st Kokutai
210th Kokutai
302nd Kokutai
343rd Kokutai
701st Kokutai
723rd Kokutai
752nd Kokutai
762nd Kokutai
801st Kokutai
1001st Kokutai
Aerial Squadron
Reconnaissance 3rd Hikotai
Reconnaissance 4th Hikotai
Reconnaissance 11th Hikotai
Reconnaissance 12th Hikotai
Reconnaissance 102nd Hikotai
Kamikaze
1st Mitate Special Attack Group (picked from 752nd Kokutai)
Sairy? Unit (picked from 752nd Kokutai, no sorties)
Saiun Unit (picked from 723rd Kokutai, no sorties)
Specifications (C6N1)Data from Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War
General characteristicsCrew: 3
Length: 11.00 m (36 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 12.50 m (41 ft 0? in)
Height: 3.96 m (13 ft 0 in)
Wing area: 25.5 m² (274 ft²)
Empty weight: 2,968 kg (6,543 lb)
Loaded weight: 4,500 kg (9,921 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 5,260 kg (11,596 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Nakajima NK9B Homare 11 18 cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine, 1,485 kW (1,990 hp)
PerformanceMaximum speed: 610 km/h (329 knots, 379 mph) at 6,100 m (20,000 ft)
Cruise speed: 390 km/h (210 knots, 242 mph)
Range: 5,300 km (2,886 NM, 3,300 mi)(with auxiliary fuel[10])
Service ceiling: 10,470 m (35,240 ft)
Wing loading: 176 kg/m² (36.2 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 0.33 kW/kg (0.20 hp/lb)
Climb to 6,000 m (19,700 ft): 8 min 9 sec
ArmamentGuns: 1x flexibly mounted rearward-firing 7.92 mm Type 1 machine gun
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