The Tachikawa Ki-36 was a Japanese two-seater close-support and light attack warplane of the Second World War in service from 1939 to the late 1940s. The Ki-36 was powered by an Hitachi Ha-13a (Army Type 97) radial piston engine providing a top speed of 348 kmh and a range of 1235 km. Fixed armaments consisted of a 7.7 mm calibre Type 98 fixed forward-firing machine-gun in the starboard side of the forward fuselage with synchronisation equipment to enable it to fire through the propeller disc, and one 7.7 mm calibre Type 98 trainable rearward-firing machine-gun in the rear cockpit. Up to 150 kg of disposable stores were also carried on two under wing hard points, and generally comprised 12.5 or 15 kg bombs. Research Tachikawa Ki-36
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