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Keeping the aircraft simple made it light, agile, cheap to build and easy to maintain aboard ship \u2014 at the cost of the top speed a cleaner airframe might have reached.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"How did the Mitsubishi A5M perform in combat?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Very well, in its time. In the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 the A5M won air superiority over China, outclassing Chinese Curtiss Hawk biplanes and Polikarpov I-15 and I-16 fighters in the hands of well-trained naval pilots, and escorting bombers deep inland with drop tanks. By 1941, however, it was short-ranged and lightly armed, and had largely been replaced by the A6M Zero in front-line service.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Do any Mitsubishi A5Ms survive today?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No complete example survives. What remains are recovered wrecks and relics \u2014 engines, fuselage sections and smaller components \u2014 held by museums and private collectors, along with reconstructions and models. There is no intact, original or airworthy A5M anywhere, which makes surviving period photographs especially valuable.\"}}]}<\/script> <\/p>\n<header class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"hero-media\"><img data-opt-id=218075986  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1920\/h:823\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mitsubishi-a5m-claude-akagi-carrier-deck.jpg\"  src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%202048%20878%22%20width%3D%222048%22%20height%3D%22878%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%222048%22%20height%3D%22878%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Mitsubishi A5M Claude carrier fighter of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Akagi air group\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap hero-in\">\n<div class=\"crumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/\">Aircraft Museum<\/a><span>\u203a Fighter<\/span><span>\u203a A5M<\/span><\/div>\n<h1>Mitsubishi A5M<br \/><em>\u201cClaude\u201d<\/em><\/h1>\n<p class=\"sub\">The world\u2019s first monoplane carrier fighter to reach the fleet \u2014 Jiro Horikoshi\u2019s open-cockpit, fixed-gear featherweight that won air superiority over China, then handed its lessons straight to the A6M Zero.<\/p>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>~440 km\/h<\/b><span>Top speed \u00b7 A5M4 (est.)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>2 \u00d7 7.7 mm<\/b><span>Its entire armament<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>\u2248 1,000<\/b><span>Built \u00b7 all variants (figures vary)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1935\u20131945<\/b><span>Prototype \u00b7 to war\u2019s end<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit\">Photo: Imperial Japanese Navy, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Role<\/b>Carrier-based day fighter<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Era<\/b>1936\u20131945 \u00b7 pre-war &amp; early WWII<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Engine<\/b>Nakajima Kotobuki 9-cyl radial<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Origin<\/b>Japan \u00b7 Mitsubishi (IJN)<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Status<\/b>Retired \u00b7 no complete survivor<\/span><a class=\"chip fly\" href=\"#faq\">Want to fly a warbird yourself?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The Story<\/div>\n<h2>The Mitsubishi A5M: the world\u2019s first modern carrier fighter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div>\n<p>In the mid-1930s the Imperial Japanese Navy still went to sea with open-cockpit biplane fighters, and it knew the type was living on borrowed time. In 1934 it issued its <strong>9-Shi<\/strong> specification for a land- and carrier-capable monoplane fighter with performance that looked, on paper, almost impossible. Mitsubishi handed the problem to a young engineer named <strong>Jiro Horikoshi<\/strong> \u2014 the man who would later design the A6M Zero \u2014 and his team answered with the <strong>Ka-14<\/strong> prototype, first flown on 4 February 1935. All-metal, low-winged and fitted with a distinctive inverted-gull wing, it reached roughly 450 km\/h, comfortably beyond what the Navy had dared to ask for.<\/p>\n<p>The gull wing was smoothed out into a simpler straight wing for production, and in 1936 the aircraft entered service as the <strong>Type 96 Carrier Fighter<\/strong> \u2014 the A5M, given the Allied reporting name \u201cClaude.\u201d Horikoshi kept it deliberately spare. It flew with an <strong>open cockpit<\/strong> and a <strong>fixed, spatted undercarriage<\/strong>, on the judgement that retracting gear and an enclosed canopy added weight and complexity a fighter this light did not need. Its entire armament was two 7.7 mm machine guns. What the pilot got in return was a machine that turned, rolled and climbed beautifully and was, by every account, a delight to fly.<\/p>\n<p>Over China in 1937\u201338 the A5M did exactly what it was built to do: it took air superiority. Flown by superbly trained naval aviators, it outclassed the Chinese Air Force\u2019s Curtiss Hawk biplanes and even the newer Polikarpov I-15 and I-16 monoplanes, and \u2014 fitted with drop tanks \u2014 escorted Japanese bombers deep inland. That success, and the lessons Horikoshi drew from it, led directly to his next aircraft, the <strong>A6M Zero<\/strong>. By the time of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 the Zero had already replaced the A5M in front-line carrier units; the older fighter was by then short-ranged and lightly armed. Many A5Ms were rebuilt as advanced trainers, and a number were expended in kamikaze attacks in the war\u2019s final months. No complete A5M is known to survive today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pull\"><cite>Light, nimble and open to the wind \u2014 the A5M was the last Japanese carrier fighter flown by feel, and the first that could honestly be called modern.<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">01<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Mitsubishi A5M\u2019s origins: how the 9-Shi contest produced Japan\u2019s first modern fighter<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The 9-Shi (ninth-year-of-Sh\u014dwa) requirement of 1934 was audacious for its day: the Navy wanted a monoplane interceptor able to reach around 350 km\/h and climb to 5,000 m in well under seven minutes. Horikoshi\u2019s Ka-14 blew past those numbers. Its inverted-gull wing was an attempt to shorten the undercarriage and improve the pilot\u2019s view, but it complicated handling and manufacture, so later prototypes reverted to a straight, elliptical-tipped low wing. The flush-riveted, stressed-skin aluminium structure was itself a leap for Japanese industry. When the type was ordered into production as the Type 96, it made Japan \u2014 briefly \u2014 the operator of the most advanced shipboard fighter in the world, and it gave Mitsubishi and Horikoshi the design vocabulary they would carry straight into the Zero.<\/p>\n<p>The Type 96 designation followed the Imperial Japanese Navy\u2019s practice of numbering aircraft by the Japanese calendar year of adoption \u2014 1936 being the year 2596, hence \u201c96.\u201d Western intelligence, unaware of the internal Mitsubishi designation A5M, later assigned the reporting name \u201cClaude.\u201d For a brief window the Navy operated what was arguably the most modern shipboard fighter in the world, and the confidence that gave Mitsubishi and Horikoshi is hard to overstate: it turned a firm that had struggled with earlier naval designs into the natural choice for the fighter that would follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Design &amp; Engineering<\/div>\n<h2>What makes the Mitsubishi A5M special<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cards3\">\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">01<\/div>\n<h3>A wing sized for the turn<\/h3>\n<p>Horikoshi gave the A5M a large, thin, all-metal wing for a very light airframe \u2014 an empty weight of little more than <strong>1,200 kg<\/strong>. The result was low wing-loading, a tight turning circle and a fighter that could out-manoeuvre almost anything it met over China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">02<\/div>\n<h3>Fixed gear and an open cockpit \u2014 on purpose<\/h3>\n<p>The A5M kept a <strong>fixed, spatted undercarriage<\/strong> and an <strong>open cockpit<\/strong> throughout its life. An enclosed canopy was tried and disliked by pilots; retractable gear was judged not worth the weight. Simplicity kept it light, cheap and easy to maintain aboard ship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">03<\/div>\n<h3>Two rifle-calibre guns<\/h3>\n<p>Its armament was just <strong>two 7.7 mm machine guns<\/strong> in the cowling \u2014 plenty against fabric biplanes in 1937, but slight by 1941. Late variants added a drop tank for range and, experimentally, a heavier gun, but the Claude was always a lightly armed fighter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">02<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Mitsubishi A5M\u2019s engine and performance: what a Kotobuki radial delivered<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Power came from a Nakajima <strong>Kotobuki<\/strong> nine-cylinder air-cooled radial, a licence-developed relative of the Bristol Jupiter. Output grew across the variants \u2014 roughly <strong>585 hp<\/strong> in the early A5M1\/A5M2a, around <strong>640 hp<\/strong> in the A5M2b, and about <strong>710 hp<\/strong> (Kotobuki 41) in the main-production A5M4. Top speed rose in step to a commonly cited <strong>~440 km\/h<\/strong> for the A5M4, with a service ceiling near 9,800 m. These figures vary between sources and should be read as representative rather than exact. What mattered in the air was not outright speed but the combination of light weight, a big wing and a responsive engine, which gave the A5M an exceptional climb and turn for the late 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Reliability and ease of maintenance mattered as much as raw power. The Kotobuki was a known, well-understood engine, and pairing it with a light airframe gave the A5M a favourable power-to-weight ratio without demanding exotic engineering. That pragmatism \u2014 enough performance from proven parts \u2014 is a recurring theme in the aircraft\u2019s design, and it is exactly why the A5M could be produced quickly and kept flying aboard ship and from rough forward strips in China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">03<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Mitsubishi A5M and the A6M Zero: a direct design lineage<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The A5M and the Zero were drawn by the same hand. Jiro Horikoshi led both projects at Mitsubishi, and the Zero was in effect the answer to the question the A5M raised: how to keep the Claude\u2019s manoeuvrability and add the range, firepower and retractable gear that carrier war would demand. The 12-Shi specification that produced the Zero was written while the A5M was proving itself over China, and much of what the Navy learned flying the Claude \u2014 the value of long range, of light structure, of trained pilots \u2014 was poured into the A6M. The Zero replaced the A5M in front-line units from 1940 onward, but it was built on the Claude\u2019s foundations.<\/p>\n<p>The transition was also human. Squadrons that had learned to fight in the A5M re-equipped with the Zero and carried their hard-won tactics forward, which is one reason the early Zero units were so lethal in 1941\u201342: their pilots were A5M veterans. In that sense the Claude\u2019s most important legacy was not any single feature carried into the A6M, but the cadre of skilled naval aviators it trained and blooded over China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Specifications<\/div>\n<h2>Mitsubishi A5M full specifications<\/h2>\n<div class=\"specgrid\">\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Airframe &amp; Performance<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Crew<\/dt>\n<dd>1<\/dd>\n<dt>Length<\/dt>\n<dd>7.57 m (A5M4)<\/dd>\n<dt>Wingspan<\/dt>\n<dd>11.00 m<\/dd>\n<dt>Height<\/dt>\n<dd>3.27 m<\/dd>\n<dt>Wing area<\/dt>\n<dd>17.8 m\u00b2<\/dd>\n<dt>Empty weight<\/dt>\n<dd>~1,216 kg<\/dd>\n<dt>Loaded weight<\/dt>\n<dd>~1,671 kg<\/dd>\n<dt>Max speed<\/dt>\n<dd>~440 km\/h at 3,000 m (est.)<\/dd>\n<dt>Service ceiling<\/dt>\n<dd>~9,800 m<\/dd>\n<dt>Range<\/dt>\n<dd>~1,200 km with drop tank (est.)<\/dd>\n<dt>Climb<\/dt>\n<dd>to 3,000 m in ~3 min 35 s (est.)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Propulsion &amp; Programme<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Engine<\/dt>\n<dd>Nakajima Kotobuki 41, 9-cyl air-cooled radial (A5M4)<\/dd>\n<dt>Power<\/dt>\n<dd>~710 hp (585\u2013785 hp across variants)<\/dd>\n<dt>Armament<\/dt>\n<dd>2 \u00d7 7.7 mm Type 89 machine guns<\/dd>\n<dt>Prototype first flight<\/dt>\n<dd>4 February 1935 (Ka-14)<\/dd>\n<dt>Introduced<\/dt>\n<dd>1936 (Type 96 Carrier Fighter)<\/dd>\n<dt>Retired<\/dt>\n<dd>1945<\/dd>\n<dt>Number built<\/dt>\n<dd>\u2248 1,000 (commonly cited ~1,094; figures vary)<\/dd>\n<dt>Unit cost<\/dt>\n<dd>not reliably recorded (1930s)<\/dd>\n<dt>Cost per flight hour<\/dt>\n<dd>not reliably recorded (1930s)<\/dd>\n<dt>Primary operator<\/dt>\n<dd>Imperial Japanese Navy<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">04<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Mitsubishi A5M\u2019s variants: from the A5M1 to the A5M4-K trainer<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Claude evolved steadily. The <strong>A5M1<\/strong> was the initial production model on the Kotobuki 2-KAI. The <strong>A5M2a<\/strong> and uprated <strong>A5M2b<\/strong> brought more power (the A5M2b briefly trialling an enclosed cockpit that pilots rejected). The <strong>A5M3<\/strong> was an experimental cannon-armed version with an imported Hispano-Suiza engine and only a handful built. The definitive <strong>A5M4<\/strong>, with the Kotobuki 41 and a jettisonable drop tank for extended range, was the most numerous. Finally the <strong>A5M4-K<\/strong> was a dedicated two-seat advanced trainer that kept many airframes useful long after the type left the front line. Total production is usually given as roughly a thousand aircraft, with ~1,094 a commonly quoted figure \u2014 though sources disagree and the number should be treated as approximate.<\/p>\n<p>The A5M4-K trainer deserves special mention. By adding a second seat it kept obsolescent fighters productive as the front line moved on, letting the Navy convert pilots onto high-performance monoplanes cheaply. Many of the airframes that lingered into 1944\u201345 were trainers of this kind, which is part of why some were available to be expended in the desperate improvised attacks of the war\u2019s final months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">05<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Mitsubishi A5M\u2019s cost and production: what the numbers do and don\u2019t tell us<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Reliable unit-cost and cost-per-flight-hour figures for a mid-1930s Japanese naval aircraft simply do not survive in any form comparable to modern programme accounting, so this page marks those rows as <strong>not reliably recorded<\/strong> rather than inventing them. What is reasonably well established is production scale \u2014 on the order of a thousand airframes built by Mitsubishi (with some sub-contracting) between 1936 and the early war years \u2014 and the fact that the design\u2019s relative simplicity, fixed gear and modest armament made it comparatively cheap and quick to build, which was part of its appeal to a navy expanding fast in the late 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth stating plainly what cannot be verified: no trustworthy per-unit price or operating-cost figure for the A5M has come down to us in a form comparable to modern accounting, and this page deliberately does not manufacture one. What can be said is that the design\u2019s simplicity was itself an economic argument \u2014 fixed gear, an open cockpit and two guns meant fewer man-hours per airframe at a moment when Japan was expanding its naval air arm as fast as industry allowed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Timeline<\/div>\n<h2>From monoplane breakthrough to war\u2019s-end trainer<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1934<\/div>\n<h3>The 9-Shi requirement<\/h3>\n<p>The Imperial Japanese Navy issues a demanding specification for an all-metal monoplane fighter, inviting Mitsubishi and Nakajima to compete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1935<\/div>\n<h3>The Ka-14 prototype flies<\/h3>\n<p>Jiro Horikoshi\u2019s prototype takes off on 4 February, reaching about 450 km\/h with its distinctive inverted-gull wing \u2014 far beyond the requirement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1936<\/div>\n<h3>Adopted as the Type 96<\/h3>\n<p>A refined, straight-winged version enters service as the Type 96 Carrier Fighter \u2014 the A5M, later code-named \u201cClaude\u201d by the Allies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1937<\/div>\n<h3>Combat debut over China<\/h3>\n<p>A5Ms deploy in the Second Sino-Japanese War, quickly taking control of the air from the Chinese Air Force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1938<\/div>\n<h3>Air superiority in China<\/h3>\n<p>Fitted with drop tanks, A5Ms escort G3M bombers deep inland and outfight Curtiss Hawks and Polikarpov I-15\/I-16 fighters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1940<\/div>\n<h3>The Zero arrives<\/h3>\n<p>Horikoshi\u2019s A6M Zero \u2014 the A5M\u2019s direct successor \u2014 enters service and begins replacing the Claude in front-line carrier units.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1941<\/div>\n<h3>Passed to the second line<\/h3>\n<p>By the Pearl Harbor attack the A5M is largely relegated to training and second-line duties, though some see early-war service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1945<\/div>\n<h3>Trainers and kamikaze<\/h3>\n<p>Surviving A5Ms serve as advanced trainers; a number are expended in kamikaze attacks before the war ends. No complete airframe survives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Stories &amp; eyewitnesses<\/div>\n<h2>From the record: twelve Mitsubishi A5M stories<\/h2>\n<div class=\"car\"><button class=\"cbtn p\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('stcar').scrollBy({left:-712,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u2039<\/button><button class=\"cbtn n\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('stcar').scrollBy({left:712,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u203a<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"track\" id=\"stcar\">\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Origins<\/div>\n<h4>Horikoshi\u2019s first fighter<\/h4>\n<p>The man who drew the Zero cut his teeth on the Claude.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>Jiro Horikoshi \u2014 later world-famous for the A6M Zero \u2014 led the Mitsubishi team that produced the Ka-14 prototype in 1935. The A5M was his first fighter design to reach production, and it established the philosophy of light weight, a large wing and clean aerodynamics that he would carry directly into the Zero.<\/p>\n<p>The experience shaped him. Lessons about weight, wing area and the value of a docile stall reappeared, refined, in the Zero \u2014 making the A5M the essential first draft of Japan\u2019s most famous fighter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Design<\/div>\n<h4>The inverted-gull experiment<\/h4>\n<p>The first prototype had a wing bent like a gull\u2019s.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>The Ka-14 first flew with an inverted-gull wing, intended to shorten the fixed undercarriage legs and improve the pilot\u2019s view over the nose. It looked dramatic but complicated both handling and manufacture, and was dropped in favour of a conventional straight low wing on later prototypes and every production A5M.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Performance<\/div>\n<h4>450 km\/h in 1935<\/h4>\n<p>The prototype stunned the Navy.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>When the Ka-14 reached roughly 450 km\/h in early 1935 it comfortably beat the Navy\u2019s demanding 9-Shi target. On its introduction the A5M was arguably the most advanced carrier fighter in the world \u2014 a striking position for Japanese aviation industry of the day, though such claims are best hedged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Service<\/div>\n<h4>Type 96 for the fleet<\/h4>\n<p>A monoplane on the carrier deck at last.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>Entering service in 1936 as the Type 96 Carrier Fighter, the A5M gave the Imperial Japanese Navy its first modern monoplane shipboard fighter. It equipped carrier air groups aboard ships such as Akagi, Kaga, S\u014dry\u016b and Hiry\u016b, as well as land-based naval air groups (k\u014dk\u016btai).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">China<\/div>\n<h4>Air superiority over China<\/h4>\n<p>The Claude owned the sky in 1937\u201338.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>In the Second Sino-Japanese War the A5M quickly established air superiority. Flown by superbly trained naval pilots, it defeated the Chinese Air Force\u2019s Curtiss Hawk biplanes and later contended with Soviet-supplied Polikarpov I-15 and I-16 fighters flown by Chinese and volunteer aviators.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Japanese accounts describe near-total control of the air over contested zones; as always, such claims are best read with a critical eye, but the operational effect \u2014 bombers getting through, Chinese fighters unable to intercept freely \u2014 is well attested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Range<\/div>\n<h4>Escorting the bombers inland<\/h4>\n<p>Drop tanks turned a short-legged fighter into an escort.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>Japanese bombers striking deep into China at first flew beyond fighter cover and paid a heavy price. Fitting the A5M with a jettisonable drop tank extended its reach far enough to escort G3M bombers on long raids \u2014 an early lesson in the value of range that fed straight into the Zero\u2019s design.<\/p>\n<p>The tactic was not free: escorting fighters at the limit of their range left little margin for combat, and the strain of long overwater and overland flights in an open cockpit tested pilots as much as machines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Adversaries<\/div>\n<h4>Against the Hawks and Polikarpovs<\/h4>\n<p>Biplanes and early monoplanes, all out-turned.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>The Claude\u2019s main opponents over China were Curtiss Hawk biplanes and the nimble Polikarpov I-15 biplane and faster I-16 monoplane. The A5M could out-turn the I-16 and outrun the biplanes, but the decisive edge was usually the training and tactics of the naval aviators flying it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Pilots<\/div>\n<h4>Sakai and the naval aces<\/h4>\n<p>Future Zero aces learned their trade on the A5M.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>Many naval aviators who later became famous on the Zero \u2014 Saburo Sakai among them \u2014 first saw combat in the A5M over China. The Claude was where a generation of Imperial Japanese Navy fighter pilots honed the deflection shooting and dogfighting that made the early Zero units so dangerous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Armament<\/div>\n<h4>Two guns, and the overclaim problem<\/h4>\n<p>Light firepower, and optimistic scoreboards.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>With just two 7.7 mm guns, the A5M needed accurate, close-in shooting to down an enemy. As in every air war, victory claims over China ran well ahead of actual enemy losses, and historians treat the more spectacular tallies with caution. Armament that sufficed against fabric biplanes would look dangerously slight against 1941\u2019s all-metal fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Modern researchers cross-checking Japanese claims against Chinese and Soviet records routinely find the real exchange rates less lopsided than wartime tallies suggested \u2014 a caution that applies to every air force of the era, not only Japan\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Lineage<\/div>\n<h4>From Claude to Zero<\/h4>\n<p>The A5M\u2019s DNA is all over the A6M.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>The A6M Zero was drawn by the same team, to a specification written while the A5M was fighting in China. The Zero kept the Claude\u2019s light structure and superb manoeuvrability and added retractable gear, an enclosed cockpit, cannon armament and long range \u2014 everything the A5M\u2019s combat experience had shown the Navy it needed.<\/p>\n<p>The overlap was deliberate policy: the Navy never wanted to be caught with an obsolete fighter again, and it kept its best design team working the next problem while the current aircraft was still winning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Twilight<\/div>\n<h4>Replaced, then rebuilt as a trainer<\/h4>\n<p>Superseded by 1941, but still useful.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>As the Zero took over front-line units from 1940, the A5M slid into second-line and training duties. The purpose-built A5M4-K two-seat trainer kept many airframes flying, passing fighter-handling skills to new pilots well into the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">The end<\/div>\n<h4>Kamikaze, and the last relics<\/h4>\n<p>No complete Claude survives today.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>In the war\u2019s final year some worn-out A5Ms were expended in kamikaze attacks. None survived intact: what remains today are recovered wrecks and relics \u2014 engines, fuselage sections and components \u2014 held by museums and collectors, together with reconstructions. There is no airworthy or complete original A5M anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>For enthusiasts and historians this scarcity is poignant. A type that once represented the cutting edge of naval aviation now exists only as fragments \u2014 which makes every surviving photograph, instrument and engine cowling a small piece of a nearly vanished story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Gallery<\/div>\n<h2>The Mitsubishi A5M in pictures<\/h2>\n<div class=\"car\"><button class=\"cbtn p\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gal').scrollBy({left:-660,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u2039<\/button><button class=\"cbtn n\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gal').scrollBy({left:660,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u203a<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"track gal\" id=\"gal\">\n<figure><img data-opt-id=1571184043  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1443\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mitsubishi-a5m-type-96-carrier-fighter-akagi.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201149%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221149%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221149%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Mitsubishi A5M Type 96 carrier fighter aboard an Imperial Japanese Navy carrier\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>A Type 96 (A5M) carrier fighter of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Photo: Yoshio Shiga, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=1875570214  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1024\/h:685\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mitsubishi-a5m2b-carrier-fighter.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201024%20685%22%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22685%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22685%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Mitsubishi A5M2b Claude carrier fighter in Imperial Japanese Navy markings\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>A Mitsubishi A5M2b in Imperial Japanese Navy service. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=621118289  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mitsubishi-a5m-open-cockpit.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"The open cockpit of a Mitsubishi A5M Claude fighter\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>The A5M retained an open cockpit throughout its career. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=2117571273  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mitsubishi-a5m4-kashimura.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Mitsubishi A5M4 Claude fighter flown by Japanese naval ace Kanichi Kashimura\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>A5M4 associated with naval ace Kan-ichi Kashimura. From the magazine Sora (\u300c\u7a7a\u300d), March 1938, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=1032490355  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mitsubishi-a5m-china-chitose-air-group.png\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Mitsubishi A5M Type 96 Model 4 carrier fighter of the Chitose Air Group over China\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>A5M Type 96 Model 4 of the Chitose Air Group during the war in China. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=2031982283  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1024\/h:650\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/saburo-sakai-mitsubishi-a5m-1939.png\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201024%20650%22%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22650%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22650%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Japanese naval aviator Saburo Sakai standing with a Mitsubishi A5M fighter in 1939\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>Future ace Saburo Sakai with an A5M, 1939. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Watch<\/div>\n<h2>The Mitsubishi A5M in motion<\/h2>\n<div class=\"vidwrap\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iDHEl-s2MNU\" title=\"A Revolutionary Carrier Fighter | Mitsubishi A5M Claude \u2014 Rex\u2019s Hangar\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Rex\u2019s Hangar, \u201cA Revolutionary Carrier Fighter | Mitsubishi A5M \u2018Claude\u2019\u201d \u2014 a detailed type history from one of aviation YouTube\u2019s most respected channels (~220,000 views).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Operations<\/div>\n<h2>Where the Mitsubishi A5M fought<\/h2>\n<p>The A5M was an Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft that was essentially never exported. This map shows its home and manufacturer, the theatres where it saw combat, the powers that armed or flew against it, and where its few surviving relics are held. 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Its record is best read through what it achieved and what it deliberately lacked. The figures below are approximate and, where sources disagree, hedged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"combat\">\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>1936<\/b><span>Entered service as the world\u2019s first carrier monoplane fighter (widely cited)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>1937\u201338<\/b><span>Held air superiority over China against biplanes and early monoplanes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>0<\/b><span>Complete A5M airframes surviving intact today<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/fighter-aircraft-combat-statistics\/\">See how fighters compare in the MiGFlug combat-statistics database<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Q&amp;A<\/div>\n<h2>Everything people ask about the Mitsubishi A5M<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open=\"\">\n<summary>Can I fly in a Mitsubishi A5M?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">No. No complete Mitsubishi A5M survives anywhere in the world, none are airworthy, and there is no aircraft of this type you can book a flight in. The A5M was a 1930s Imperial Japanese Navy carrier fighter and only recovered wrecks and relics remain. However, you <strong>can<\/strong> fly in several genuine military jets today \u2014 including fighter jets flown from cockpit \u2014 with MiGFlug. See what is currently bookable at <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">migflug.com\/flights-prices<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What was the Mitsubishi A5M \u201cClaude\u201d?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Mitsubishi A5M was a single-seat, carrier-based day fighter of the Imperial Japanese Navy, in service from 1936. Known in Japan as the Type 96 Carrier Fighter and given the Allied reporting name \u201cClaude,\u201d it was an all-metal monoplane with an open cockpit and fixed landing gear, designed by Jiro Horikoshi \u2014 the engineer who went on to design the A6M Zero.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Was the A5M really the first monoplane carrier fighter?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">It is widely described as the first monoplane fighter designed for carrier operations to enter operational service, from 1936. As with many \u201cfirsts\u201d in aviation the claim deserves a small hedge \u2014 definitions of \u201ccarrier fighter\u201d and \u201cin service\u201d vary \u2014 but the A5M is consistently cited as a genuine milestone: the aircraft that took the world\u2019s carrier fighters from biplane to monoplane.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How is the Mitsubishi A5M related to the A6M Zero?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Directly. Both were designed at Mitsubishi by teams led by Jiro Horikoshi, and the Zero was in effect the A5M\u2019s successor. The specification that produced the Zero was written while the A5M was fighting in China, and the lessons of the Claude \u2014 light structure, superb manoeuvrability, and the need for far greater range and firepower \u2014 shaped the A6M. The Zero replaced the A5M in front-line carrier units from 1940.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why did the A5M have fixed landing gear and an open cockpit?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">By deliberate choice. Horikoshi judged that retractable gear and an enclosed canopy added weight and complexity that a fighter this light did not need, and pilots who trialled a closed cockpit on the A5M2b disliked it. Keeping the aircraft simple made it light, agile, cheap to build and easy to maintain aboard ship \u2014 at the cost of the top speed a cleaner airframe might have reached.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How did the Mitsubishi A5M perform in combat?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Very well, in its time. In the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 the A5M won air superiority over China, outclassing Chinese Curtiss Hawk biplanes and Polikarpov I-15 and I-16 fighters in the hands of well-trained naval pilots, and escorting bombers deep inland with drop tanks. By 1941, however, it was short-ranged and lightly armed, and had largely been replaced by the A6M Zero in front-line service.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Do any Mitsubishi A5Ms survive today?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">No complete example survives. What remains are recovered wrecks and relics \u2014 engines, fuselage sections and smaller components \u2014 held by museums and private collectors, along with reconstructions and models. There is no intact, original or airworthy A5M anywhere, which makes surviving period photographs especially valuable.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"ad\">\n<div class=\"adin\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The part of the collection you can touch<\/div>\n<h2>You can\u2019t fly the Mitsubishi A5M.<br \/>These, you can.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"adp\">No complete Claude survives, and none will ever fly again. But the thrill it gave its pilots \u2014 light, fast, alive in your hands \u2014 is still bookable today. 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alt=\"Lockheed F-104 Starfighter side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the F-104 Starfighter<\/b><span>\u201cThe missile with a man in it\u201d<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/mig-21-launch\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MiG-21<\/b><span>The Cold War\u2019s most-produced jet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/t-33-in-canada\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the T-33 Shooting Star<\/b><span>America\u2019s first jet trainer<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/vampire-flight-near-london\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"de Havilland Vampire side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the DH Vampire<\/b><span>A piece of early jet history<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/s-211-jet-flight-munich\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"SIAI-Marchetti S.211 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the S.211<\/b><span>Agile Italian jet trainer<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/l-39-mb-326-jet-provost-in-italy\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Aermacchi MB-326 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MB-326<\/b><span>The classic Aermacchi jet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/mig-15-fagot-czech-republic\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MiG-15<\/b><span>The Soviet legend of the Korean War<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See all flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section style=\"padding-top:44px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Related Aircraft<\/div>\n<h2>Continue the tour<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/a6m-zero\/\"><span class=\"rk\">The successor<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Mitsubishi A6M Zero<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The legendary carrier fighter the A5M made possible \u2014 same designer, next generation.<\/span><span class=\"go\">View exhibit<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ki-27-nate\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Army counterpart<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Nakajima Ki-27 \u201cNate\u201d<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Imperial Army\u2019s parallel fixed-gear monoplane fighter of the very same era.<\/span><span class=\"go\">View exhibit<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/brewster-buffalo\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Allied contemporary<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Brewster F2A Buffalo<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The stubby American carrier monoplane the A5M\u2019s successor would soon humble.<\/span><span class=\"go\">View exhibit<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section style=\"padding:48px 0 64px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/div>\n<h2>Every fact, checked<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"srclist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum<\/a><span>Reference material on early carrier fighters and the transition to monoplanes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/history\/second-world-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imperial War Museums<\/a><span>Background on the air war in China and the wider Pacific conflict.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naval History and Heritage Command<\/a><span>US Navy historical context on Imperial Japanese Navy carrier aviation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pwencycl.kgbudge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia<\/a><span>Detailed technical and operational entry on the Mitsubishi A5M.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/search?q=samurai+saburo+sakai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saburo Sakai, \u201cSamurai!\u201d (memoir)<\/a><span>First-hand account by a naval aviator who flew the A5M in China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/search?q=japanese+aircraft+of+the+pacific+war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ren\u00e9 J. Francillon, \u201cJapanese Aircraft of the Pacific War\u201d<\/a><span>The standard English-language reference on Japanese wartime aircraft.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iDHEl-s2MNU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rex\u2019s Hangar \u2014 Mitsubishi A5M \u201cClaude\u201d<\/a><span>In-depth video type history from a respected aviation channel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MiGFlug Afterburner<\/a><span>MiGFlug\u2019s aviation magazine on warbirds, jet flights and air-combat history.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"galfix71\" data-js=\"KGZ1bmN0aW9uKCl7dmFyIHN3YXA9ZnVuY3Rpb24oKXt2YXIgZT1kb2N1bWVudC5xdWVyeVNlbGVjdG9yQWxsKCcjZ2FsIGltZ1tkYXRhLW9wdC1zcmNdJyk7Zm9yKHZhciBpPTA7aTxlLmxlbmd0aDtpKyspe3ZhciBpbT1lW2ldO3ZhciB1PWltLmdldEF0dHJpYnV0ZSgnZGF0YS1vcHQtc3JjJyk7aWYodSl7aW0uc2V0QXR0cmlidXRlKCdzcmMnLHUucmVwbGFjZSgvXC93OihcZCspXC8vLGZ1bmN0aW9uKG1tLG4pe3JldHVybiArbj43Njg\/Jy93Ojc2OC8nOm1tfSkucmVwbGFjZSgvXC9oOlxkK1wvLywnL2g6YXV0by8nKS5yZXBsYWNlKC9cL3E6XGQrXC8vLCcvcTo3NS8nKSk7aW0ucmVtb3ZlQXR0cmlidXRlKCdkYXRhLW9wdC1zcmMnKTt9fX07aWYoZG9jdW1lbnQucmVhZHlTdGF0ZT09PSdsb2FkaW5nJyl7ZG9jdW1lbnQuYWRkRXZlbnRMaXN0ZW5lcignRE9NQ29udGVudExvYWRlZCcsc3dhcCk7fWVsc2V7c3dhcCgpO312YXIgbj0wLGl2PXNldEludGVydmFsKGZ1bmN0aW9uKCl7c3dhcCgpO2lmKCsrbj4xNCl7Y2xlYXJJbnRlcnZhbChpdik7fX0sNDAwKTt9KSgpOw==\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(){var el=document.getElementById(\"galfix71\");var js=decodeURIComponent(escape(atob(el.getAttribute(\"data-js\"))));var sc=document.createElement(\"script\");sc.text=js;document.body.appendChild(sc);})();<\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aircraft Museum\u203a Fighter\u203a A5M Mitsubishi A5M\u201cClaude\u201d The world\u2019s first monoplane carrier fighter to reach the fleet \u2014 Jiro Horikoshi\u2019s open-cockpit, fixed-gear featherweight that won air superiority over China, then handed its lessons straight to the A6M Zero. ~440 km\/hTop speed \u00b7 A5M4 (est.) 2 \u00d7 7.7 mmIts entire armament \u2248 1,000Built \u00b7 all variants (figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21313,"parent":15960,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21320","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mitsubishi A5M \u201cClaude\u201d \u2014 History, Specs, Photos &amp; 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