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Variants
G4M1 Prototype and test version
G4M1 Model 11 Initial production version
G4M1 Model 12 New engines and token fuel-tank protection
G4M2 Model 22 Introduced a bulged, enclosed bomb
bay with power-operated doors, new engines, two flexible 7.7mm machine
guns in the nose, and a new hydraulically-operated dorsal turret housing
a 20mm cannon to replace the former blister-mounted dorsal 7.7mm gun in
the same position and a totally unprotected additional fuselage-mounted
fuel tank
G4M2 Model 22a Given a 20mm cannon to replace the
waist-mounted 7.7mm machine guns
G4M2 Model 22b Replaced the former drum-fed cannons
at all positions with belt-fed cannons
G4M2a Model 24 Improved engines with better fuel
economy at cruise, and the same basic armament as Model 22
G4M2a Model 24a Given a 20mm cannon to replace the
waist-mounted 7.7mm machine guns
G4M2a Model 24b replaced the former drum-fed cannons
at all positions with belt-fed cannons
G4M2a Model 24c Added a 13.2mm machine gun to the
nose to replace one of the 7.7mm weapons
G4M2e Model 24j Intended as “mother-craft” for the
Ohka flying bomb, bomb-bay doors were removed and special shackles added
for the carrying of an Ohka
G4M3 Model 34 Given proper armor plating and self-sealing
fuel tanks, the extra tank in the fuselage was taken out, tail turret was
modified to resemble that of the American B-26 Marauder, and horizontal
stabilizers were given greater dihedral to make up for the change in the
G4M’s center of gravity (60 built)
G4M3a Model 34a Pre-production prototype with revised
armament
G4M3 Model 36 Pre-production prototypes New engines
(2 built)
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