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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


"Deadly rivals"? Did the Army and IJN do assassinations on each
other
or something?

Something fairly close to it. Right-wing Japanese nationalists aligned with
parts of the Imperial Japanese Army had been using assasination and threats
of violence against political leaders thoughout the 1930s. In roughly
1940-41, Admiral Yamamoto was rumored to be a target of assasination
efforts for arguing against war with the United States. In some versions of
the story, that's how he ended up in command of the Japanese fleet in
December 1941; his bosses decided he was safer at sea than in a Tokyo
office.

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