Variants
- Ka-15
- Prototype with either Hiro Type 91 (559 kW/750 hp), Mitsubishi Kinsei 2 (619 kW/830 hp), or Mitsubishi Kinsei 3 (679 kW/910 hp) engines and glass or solid nose, 21 built.
- G3M1a/c
- Redesignated prototypes powered by Hiro Type 91 or Mitsubishi Kinsei engines, glass nose.
- G3M1 Model 11
- Land-based attack bomber Navy Type 96 first series model. Major extension of the cabin with a revised cover, some with fixed-pitch propeller, 34 built.
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- G3M1-L
- G3M1 converted into an armed or unarmed military transport version and powered by Mitsubishi Kinsei 45 (802 kW/1,075 hp) engines.
- G3M2 Model 21
- More powerful engines and increased fuel capacity, dorsal turret. 343 constructed by Mitsubishi, 412 G3M2 and G3M3 manufactured by Nakajima.
- G3M2 Model 22
- Upper and belly turrets substituted for one upper turret, glass side positions, 238 built.
- G3M3 Model 23
- More powerful engines and increased fuel capacity for longer range, constructed by Nakajima.
- L3Y1 Model 11
- Transport Navy Type 96, advanced conversion of G3M1 armed transport, built by Yokosuka.
- L3Y2 Model 12
- Modification of G3M2 with Mitsubishi Kinsei engines, built by Yokosuka.
- Mitsubishi Twin-Engined Transport
- Around two dozen G3M2 Model 21 bombers convrted for use by civil operators such as Nippon Koku K.K..
- Nippon
- One of the Twin Engined Transports converted to carry out a Round the World flight in 1939 on behalf of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
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