Great job of Hog deffense, I want Indian to be my blood brother.
There was 976 C models produced and flying way before the end of war on imperial japan, production durring war time of some of these other varriants as production durring the war is what should be questioned, hell europe was a tourist attraction when the C was still blowin up tojo's.
They didn't make all hogs with cannons because cannons are very large, very heavy and the addition of the weight from them and their ammo load limited the Corsairs range and bomb and fuel payload and therefore limiting its true performance, ya know in the real sense not the get up and shoot online sense.
Most planes didn't carry 4 cannons because they didn't have the Size and bellybutton to pull them around and 4 of them would shake most birds to pieces, hell they would acctualy slow you down when you fired them.
The hogs cieling was 41 thousand feet in here at 20k it barely climbs or turns and that wasn't even its optimal performance altitude ,it was 27k.
Its top speed "level" was as fast or in most cases faster than other fighters of WWII at 470.
It had the strongest wings of any fighter by design for its carrier landing and operations in here they fall off if the wind gusts.
It could out roll and turn with anything at medium and high speeds and had multistage flaps to help with modest turning at slower speeds.
I don't know what quake is but do know the hog did Many things better than Most planes, not all better than one but it was a winning combination.
Spits.... gime a break the spit would turn its wooden wings to mulch trying to dive, roll and highspeed turn with the hog, its top speed was 450 and it could not exceed this in a dive like the 500mph+ hog in a dive.
The N1K1 was a large fighter by japanese standards and keep in mind they got radial engine technology from us prior to WWII, that makes it a candidate for cannons in here it has 4 cannons and they kill you just as fast if you get in front of them and rightfully so.
The hog like the P47 was big and very heavily armored and could lose several cylinders and still fly, in here they are not given this respect.
My "ratio is higher" when I use energy fighting instead of chasing cars at 50 feet with the masses, I always use the C model for this and use the N1K1 for alts bellow 15k where it will kill C's all day if they give up thier altitude or speed.
But all things considered I wouldn't change the flight models, they are better than anything out there and what all the fluster is really about is what it might have been like if hogs would have flown against planes in europe, make a PAC arena and you'll all be safe from the C model Corsair because the pilot accounts and the real aircrafts performance tell the truth about this large, fast, leathel bird of prey.
Rattle off attributes and abilities from other production fighters and the hog will blanket them all with its overall talents.
The C was one ......"SUPER"..... fighter, the germans are mad they didn't think of it, 190 you are clear for trap, good luck on your first carrier landing.
Thats my 30 bucks worth love it or don't,
"show me a war hero and I'll prove he's a Bum" Pappy Boyington.
