Turn volume down to avoid listening to Civilian gee-whiz pussy talker...read the sub-titles. A flush-deck aircraft carrier like our USS Langley--but faster. Without a superstructure in the way, LARGE 2x engined aircraft can extend their wings over the starboard side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_J1N
In mid-1938 the Japanese Imperial Navy requested a twin-engine fighter designed to escort the principal bomber used at the time, Mitsubishi G3M "Nell". The operating range of the standard Navy fighter, the Mitsubishi A5M "Claude", was only 1,200 km (750 mi), insufficient compared with the 4,400 km (2,730 mi) of the G3M. Moreover, at the time, the potential of the "Zero", then still under development, remained to be evaluated, stressing the need for a long-range escort fighter, much as the Luftwaffe had done with the Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstörer, introduced the year before.
The J1N1-S was used against B-29 Superfortresses in Japan, though the lack of good radar and insufficient high-altitude performance handicapped it, since usually only one pass could be made against the higher-speed B-29s. However, some skillful pilots had spectacular successes, such as Lieutenant Sachio Endo, who was credited with destroying eight B-29s and damaging another eight before he was shot down by a B-29 crew, Shigetoshi Kudo (nine victories), Shiro Kurotori (six victories), and Juzo Kuramoto (eight victories); the last two claimed five B-29s during the night of 25–26 May 1945.[citation needed] Another Gekkō crew shot down five B-29's in one night, but these successes were rare. Many Gekkō's were also shot down or destroyed on the ground.
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What's disturbing is a clever Japanese junior officer create upward-firing cannon which resulted in several aces flaming over 9x B-29s = over 100x men killed. Douhet GeoStrategic bombing is such evil BS--the Japs called it quits when the Russians declared war and would MANEUVER their Red Army to take all of Japan--Godzilla for real!
Now imagine the Japanese developing a FOLDING WING J1N with two large retracting floats that could take-off from either a flush-deck carrier or the sea...
With 1500 mile range far superior to our short-range, single-engined, gas hog air-cooled engine fighter...the IJN could have had J1N "SeaIrvings" spot our USN aircraft carrier clusterfuck 1st, then attacked with down-ward firing 20mm autocannon setting our wooden flight decks crammed with aircraft full of highly volatile gasoline aflame...explosions...abandon ship!
You get the picture.
The Japanese kick our asses at Midway--which in retrospect would have been a good thing...forcing our carriertards to use flush decks and larger more capable planes--to include seaplanes instead of reinforcing the short-range, lawn dart stupidity damning us today and sending us on a rendezvous with a you-sunk-our-fleet comeuppance in the face of overwhelming enemy missiles--some ballistic.
John 3:16
Semper Airborne!
James Bond is REAL.
