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e Japanese Nakajima B-5N2. e Japanese used these planes in their surprise
attack on Pearl Harbor. By the end of the 1930s the Soviet Union developed the
Su-2 (Ivanov). Soviet designers were not aware of the Japanese plane, but in both
countries identical planes were developed. Stalin was planning to use the Su-2 against
the Germans in the same way the Japanese used the Nakajima against the U.S.