D-3A "Val" (99)

First prototype flown on January, 1938, after were produced 470 aircrafts type D-3A1 with engine "Kinsey-43", 1000 hp or "Kinsey-44", 1070 hp, 1939 .

In the beginning of World War 2 this airplane was the main aircraft of the Japanese Shipborne aircraft.

D3A Val, Rabaul 1943

In the autumn of 1942 its improved version D-3A2 (were produced 1016 pcs.).

However by this time the design of an airplane is already obsolete; since 1943 the most part of rest D-3A2 were altered in educational D-3A2-K.

At the end of its career, the already obsolete aircraft was used as a flying bomb, piloted by kamikaze suicide bombers.

Dimensions
D-3A2 'Val' Specification
Crew	2
Wing span, m	14.37
Length, m	10.20
Height, m	3.85
Powerplant
PE "Kinsey-54" ("Mitsubishi"), hp	1300
Weight, kg:
Empty weight	2,570
Gross weight	4,120
Performance
Maximum speed, km/h	430
Time to 3000m, min	6
Service ceiling, m	10,500
Service range, km	1,350
Armament
7.7-mm machine guns in fuselage and in a rear cabin, pcs	2+1
External bomb load, kg	370

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