Nakajima Sakae
The Nakajima Sakae was a two-row, 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine used in a number of combat aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II.
Design and development
The engine was designed by Nakajima Aircraft Company with code name NAM, as a scaled-down and advanced version of the previous NAL design. The Imperial Japanese Army Air Force called the first of the series the Ha25 and later versions were designated Ha105 and Ha115, in the Hatsudoki designation system and Ha-35 in the unified designation system, while the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service designation was Nakajima NK1, with sub-types identified by Model numbers; thus Nakajima NK1 Sakae 10, 20 and 30 series.A total of 21,166 were made by Nakajima; 9,067 were manufactured by other firms.
Variants
;Army Type 99 975 hp Air-cooled Radial;Nakajima Ha25
;Nakajima Ha105 :
;Nakajima Ha115
;Nakajima Ha-35
;Nakajima NK1
Applications
- Kawasaki Ki-45
- Kawasaki Ki-48
- Kawasaki Ki-56
- Mitsubishi A6M
- Mitsubishi C5M2
- Nakajima B5N2
- Nakajima J1N
- Nakajima Ki-43
- Nakajima Ki-115
- Tachikawa Ki-77