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How misleading trials could weaken Japanese air defense

Weak Japanese air defense is attributed here to misleading results from testing.

Notes

Poor Japanese five-inch and 25 mm anti-aircraft weapons helped Allied pilots survive. That criticism receives agreement, with misleading trials offered as a reason for Japanese confidence in the systems. False positives from their own testing complicate the idea that they simply failed to consider air defence.