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Hawker AXH1 (ニムロッド艦上戦闘機)
In 1934, the Japanese Navy purchased one Hawker Nimrod I aircraft, for testing purposes. The Japanese Navy named the aircraft carrier-based fighter Nimrod (abbreviated AXH1).
History
When in 1934 the work on the successor to the Nakajima A2N1 fighter was prolonged for the second year, the Japanese Navy decided that it was necessary to look for a successor abroad (it was not until the autumn that the Nakajima A4N prototype was created). It was decided to buy the fighter from Great Britain, because it was considered that the British would have the most modern fighters in the navy. The Japanese commission selected the Hawker Nimrod I, which was a modern aircraft at the time (introduced to the service in 1932). The Japanese purchased one Nimrod I aircraft, which was delivered to Japan in mid-1934. The aircraft was immediately designated AXH1 (Nimrod carrier-based fighter) and tests began on it. The Japanese put a lot of pomp in the AXH1 plane, but it quickly turned out that the plane is worse than the Japanese planes (probably than the A4N1 prototype). The Japanese decided to disassemble the plane to get to know it better and were most interested in the plane’s radiator (it probably helped improve the Nakajima A4N prototype). It is not known what happened to the Hawker AXH1 aircraft afterwards.
Construction description
The Hawker AXH1 is identical to the Hawker Nimrod I aircraft from War Thunder.
Cockpit photo
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 8,09 m
- Wingspan: 10,23 m
- Height: 3 m
- Wing area: 28,00 m2
- Empty weight: 1316 kg
- Gross weight: 1833 kg
- Maximum Take-off Weight: ?
- Powerplant: 1 x Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIMS liquid-cooled V12, with a take-off power of 630 hp (440 kW)
- Propellers: Two-bladed propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 311 km/h
- Cruising speed: ?
- Range: 491 km
- Maximum Range: 837 km
- Service ceiling: 8 535 m
- Climb Rate: 6.8 m/s
- Rate of climb: 6.13 min to 3048 m
Armament
- Guns:
- 2 x Vickers E 7.7mm Machine Guns in the nose (600 rounds per rifle)
- Bombs:
- 4 x 9 kg (20 lb) bombs (under the wings)
Summary
The Hawker AXH1 is an interesting aircraft for Japan in War Thunder. This aircraft will be an interesting low-rank Premium fighter for Japan, which will provide a different way of fighting than Japanese aircraft. I encourage you to discuss in the comments and to share your own knowledge on this subject.
Finally, I apologize for the linguistic and logical errors because unfortunately English is not my main language and I had to use google translator.
Internet sources
ホーカー ニムロッド - Wikipedia
Hawker Nimrod - Wikipedia
Hawker Nimrod Mk.I : Hawker / Hawker Siddeley
WildEagles: Japanese Hawker Nimrod
Уголок неба ¦ Hawker Nimrod
Hawker Nimrod: Photos, History, Specification
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