page_title: Kawasaki Ki-45
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: Kawasaki Ki-45 / Variants
caption_attribution_description: English: A Royal Air Force officer examining a Japanese Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu fighter/ground attack aircraft (known to the Allies as a "Nick"). This was one of a number of aircraft abandoned at Kallang Airport, Singapore.
context_page_description: The Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu was a two-seat, twin-engine fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. The army gave it the designation "Type 2 Two-Seat Fighter"; the Allied reporting name was "Nick".
context_section_description: There is sometimes a confusion in the different subtypes. The information below is based on Japanese work, not on usual 'western' data. Even the NASM claims that the Ki-45 on display is a hei (c) type whereas Japanese press would read it is a tei (d) type nightfighter version with dorsal armament.
  Ki-45
  Prototype aircraft
  KI-45 Type 1
  Modified operative models
  Ki-45 KAI
  Prototype aircraft
  Ki-45 KAI
  Pre-series aircraft
  Ki-45 KAIa (ko/甲)
  Toryu: Two-seat fighter Type 2 of the army (Mark A) initial model of series, one 20 mm Ho-3 in ventral position, two Ho-103 12.7 mm in the nose and a flexible 7.92 mm in the back position
  Ki-45 KAIb (otsu/乙)
  retrofit version based on the KAIa, 20 mm belly cannon replaced by a 37 mm type 94 tank gun
  Ki-45 KAIc (hei/丙)
  Mark C version against naval objectives, one 37 mm (1.46 in) Ho-203 automatic cannon in the nose, one 7.92 mm (.312 in) machine gun in the back position.
  Ki-45 KAId (tei/丁)
  Mark D, a modified Model B, night fighter version, equipped with one 37 mm (1.46 in) Ho-203 cannon in nose and two fixed 20 mm Ho-5 cannons in a Schräge Musik-style dorsal frontal position, and one 7.92 mm (.312 in) Type 98 machine gun in the back position
  Ki-45 II
  Single-seat fighter prototype; later re-designated Ki-96
  Total production: 1,691 or 1,701 units.
caption: Abandoned Ki-45s of the 71st Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai at Kallang Airfield, Singapore, in September 1945.[6]
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