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Only one with 2 x 250 Kg?

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Although the B7A had a weight carrying capacity apparently resulting in a weapons load no greater than its predecessors, in fact the presence of an internal bomb bay with two high-load-capability attachment points allowed the aircraft to carry two 250 kg bombs, something no other Japanese single engine fighter or attack aircraft could do (other aircraft had only a single heavy-load attachment point, and there was no known example of an external rack to adapt a single attachment point to multiple heavy bombs).

Article about B5N (2 generations older) says it could carry as much as 3 250Kg bombs. Japanese fighters of the time or older like Ki-43, Ki-84, N1K also carried 2x250Kg. Maybe article meant to say B7A could carry 2 250Kg internally?

BTW, also suspicious the 1941 prototype (earlier than B6N?) and 1941-1944 production period. 89.129.183.6 21:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the nonsense about 2x250 kg. Ki-84, N1K and others were single-engine planes and able to use 2x250 kg bombs as well. Lastdingo (talk) 16:55, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

B7A2 Status

There's a posting on the Secret Projects forum, http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,661.msg225615.html#msg225615, stating a recent (in 2014) issue of Maru magazine quotes Toshio Ozaki, the designer, as saying the B7A2 redesign was not actually completed and that the production aircraft were actually B7A1. If someone has access to the relevant issue a change may well be warranted. 92.238.224.101 (talk) 10:59, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]