Originally Posted by
Naharaht
How to use the Nakajima is a problem. it was originally designed as a long range escort fighter with a forward firing armament of one 20mm cannon and two 7.7mm machine guns with four more 7.7mm machine guns in two rearward firing remotely controlled dorsal barbettes. Sadly these were difficult to control, they reduced the aircraft's performance and made it sluggish to handle, so this version was abandoned. A lighter reconnaissance version, the J1N1-C had only a rearward firing manual 13mm machine gun. The Nakajima was mainly used as a nightfighter with obliquely firing 20mm cannon typically two upwards and two downwards, although some only had the two upwards firing ones and some had three upwards firing ones.
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