"JDupre5762" wrote in message
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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'

The IJN and the Japanese Army were deadly rivals in the power
struggles that characterised Japanese politcs of the 20's, 30's and
40's its unlikley they would ever co-operate on anything.

That said the requirements of shipborne aircraft tend to vary from those
of land based aircraft and the USN and USAAF used different aircraft
too as did the RAF and FAA.

Keith