The Kawasaki Ki-45 (Type 2 Heavy Fighter, Model 1) Toryu was a Japanese two seater night-fighter of the Second World War, prototyped in 1940 and produced from 1941 until the end of the war, and in May 1944 four Kawasaki Ki-45 aircraft made the first kamikaze attacks, attacking allied shipping off the coast of New Guinea. The Kawasaki Ki-45 was a mid-wing cantilever monoplane powered by a 1080 hp Mitsubishi Ha-102 14-cylinder radial piston engine providing a top speed of 545 kmh and a range of 2000 km. Armaments varied, the Ki-45 KAIa being equipped with one forward-firing 20 mm cannon, two 12.7 mm machine-guns in the nose, and a 7.92 mm machine-gun on a flexible mount in the rear cockpit. Two drop tanks or two 250 kg bombs could also be carried on under-wing racks. Research Kawasaki Ki-45
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