(JDupre5762) wrote in message ...
Did the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and the Imperial Japanese Navy Air
Force operate any of the same make of aircraft? It seems to me that that at
least with some combat aircraft the two services might have economically
ordered from the same production lines and saved some money and opened up some
factories for producing more of other types of aircraft?

John Dupre'

I believe the Navy did use some of the Army's Ki-46 recce aircraft.
Also, the Ki-67 bomber was used as a torpedo bomber by the navy.
However, these were the exceptions to the rule. A further example of
inefficient duplication was that the two services had separate
programs for radar development.

Robert Inkol