Talk:Reppuu Model 11/@comment-26035892-20190308234829/@comment-85.76.0.70-20190309101329

Most likely A7M3 could still be used from carrier, because J stands for land based fighter and the Japanse were quite precise in those things. Though in practice they wouldn't have wasted it's more expensive supercharger for lower level carrrier use.

D4Y3 is a bit similar deal. Somebody wrote in wikipedia that it was land based, but that's not really because it was build as such, but because the Japanese didn't have carriers to use it from. Later during it's production they removed the useless tailhook from it, but earlier they planned to deploy part of 601st airgroup equiped with those on one of the Unryuus.

A7M3-J on the other hand was good deal bigger and heavier than earlier Reppuus, so it'd require too high landing speed for carrier.