The mid-1930s saw the ever increasing numbers of fast monoplane
fighters entering service with many of the world's air forces. This
was not the case in naval aviation, where biplane designs still
reigned supreme. One exception to the rule was the French Navy with
its aircraft carrier Bearn and embarked Dewoitine D.371T1 fighters
in parasol configuration, hardly a promising design for
carrier-based aircraft. Prevalence of biplanes among naval fighters
of the time was due to very strict limitations on landing speeds
imposed by small flight decks of contemporary aircraft carriers. It
was in the middle of that decade, in 1935, that the Mitsubishi A5M
entered the stage - a low-wing, monoplane carrier-based fighter,
which set new standards for aircraft of its class. Having said
that, the Claude wasn't the first fighter in this configuration
designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy .
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