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1997 Joao Paulo Juliao Matsuura
Nakajima G8N Renzan (Mountain Range)
Allied Code Name: "Rita"
(Scanned from René J. Francillion "Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" - Putnam - 1979)
UNITS ALLOCATED
None during wartime.
TECHNICAL DATA
Description: Four-engined heavy bomber. All-metal construction with fabric-covered control surfaces.
Accommodation: Normal crew of ten.
Powerplant: Four Nakajima NK9K-L Homare 24 eighteen-cylinder air-cooled radials rated at 2,000 hp for take-off and 1,850 hp at 8,000 m, driving four-blade constant-speed metal propellers.
- Twin 20 mm Type 99 cannon in power-operated dorsal, ventral and tail turrets, two 13 mm Type 2 machine-guns in a power-operated nose turret and one flexible 13 mm Type 2 machine-gun in each of the port and starboard beam positions.
- Bomb-load:
- normal
- four 250 kg bombs
- maximum
- two 2,000 kg bombs
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