What is Mitsubishi A5M Claude?
[[File:A5M Claude.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An A5M]] The '''A5M Claude''' was a [[Japan]]ese [[fighter aircraft]] made by [[Mitsubishi]]. It first flew in [[1935]] and was introduced in [[1937]]. It was the first [[monoplane]] ([[fixed-wing aircraft]] with one set of [[wing]]s) that could work from an [[aircraft carrier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.netwings.org/library/Avhistory_CFS2_Aircraft/Japan/|title=History of the A5M Claude|publisher=www.netwings.com|accessdate=2008-06-26|archive-date=2008-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618090803/http://www.netwings.org/library/Avhistory_CFS2_Aircraft/Japan/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was similar to the [[P-26 Peashooter]], an [[United States of America|American]] monoplane fighter. It fought in the second Sino-Japanese War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC062606/Other_Pages/claude.htm|title=Second Japanese War|publisher=www.tqnyc.org|accessdate=2008-06-26}}</ref> After the [[Pearl Harbor]] attacks, it was not good enough to fight against American fighters like the [[Curtiss P-40]] and the [[F4F Wildcat]], so it was replaced by the [[A6M Zero]]. Near the end of WW2, many A5M’s were pulled out of retirement to be used as suicidal [[Kamikaze|kamikaze aircraft]]. ==Related pages== *[[A6M Zero]] == References == <references/> {{Japan-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:A5M Claude}} [[Category:Military aviation]] [[Category:Military of Japan]] [[Category:Mitsubishi]] [[Category:World War II Japanese aircraft]]