Nice one
Also you can get shot of the fwd chin turret and the belly gun in addition to the side gunners for this ac - thats 4 men, 2 turret, at least 4 x 50 cal and ammo that can free up using napkin math about 2 tons? Should further improve its range and/or possibly double up on the number of fish it can carry to 4.
I could, and I thought about it, but you know? If this thing shows up at Coral Sea in the ITTL I'm working on (and it will), I think the people who are making it, will be like the people in mindset, who are making the Mackerels in the same ITTL, They will be sort of halfway committed to a "new crazy idea" and very nervous about it. I can see them using nose and belly guns early in the war and using AAF style combat boxes before they go into the line abreast attack runs a la classic aerial USN torpedo attack profile. And when you think about the cruise altitudes (about 3000 meters) and the expected opposition, A5M Claudes at the time of design modifications, and Chennault, jumping up and down, off in his little corner at the AAC Fighter Tactics School (where some USN pilots were also taught fighter tactics), screaming about BF 109s and the new A6Ms, the American navy is probably looking at something like this instead of a schnell bomber.