At any rate the Soviet war danger and the fact that more and more for~ midable planes are being built each month explain why Japan is deter. mined to double its alr strength within the next twelve months. According to Japanese estimates Soviet Russia. has 3,000 military planes to Japan's 800 army aircraft. Japan estimates the number of army planes possessed by the major country follows: United States. 1,299; 1,882.
Very few people outside of army oflleers have ever been inside the factories where military planes ate being constructed but it is learned that' several new types of highly efficient pursuit planes have been developed here during the past yea These, It is claimed, are among the fastest draft of" their type in the There are two large private aeroplane factories to-day, the Nakajima and the Kawanishi" works. These two companies build practically all of the army and navy's aircraft arid when It is remembered that the army and navy buy practically no planes from abroad, their potentialities may be Imagined. But no one outside of the army and navy know exactly: how many planes these works turn out each month. What is more, the army has only @ rough idea of what the navy is getting and vice versa. Everything is being done with the utmost secrecy and the only thing that Is not secret is that both companies are working with feverish activity.
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