D4Y

[sandwich]

Do you know how long it takes to develop a plane?

No?

Well Make a flight model, Skin it, Texture it, Coad the plane, then submit it to HT.

Then they'll add it and you can stop bumping.

DO IT!

[321BAR]

I would like to see this one, the G4M, Ki-21 and the B6N for the Japanese bombers. As well as the Ki-43/44/84Ib   Pretty much anything Japanese then/or Axis I'd be happy with.


+1  

M-18

[froger]

ummmmm METEOR

[whiteman]

Since we have no twin engined bomber at all for the Japanese for Early or Mid war, I will say it again: We need the G4M "Betty" over any other.

D4Y "Judy" would be my next pick to give the IJN a late war dive bomber, as the B5N/D3As are the saddest kind of cannon fodder after 1943.

Single engined fighters? not a bad lineup right now, I would add the Ki-43 next. The IJAAF needs an early mid war fighter. WW2 was not just a bunch of Zeros in the Pacific, contrary to crappy tv shows and half baked mythologies.

+1 for this, would love to see more meatballs flying around.

[Avanti]

+1
sounds good too me but your source has got me a little puzzled, if someone could please clarify for me?

It says that it's first prototype flew in december 1945 but it served 1942 to 1945?
it just doesn't make sense to me

Avanti

[Void]

More JUDYs!

[Bino]

+1
sounds good too me but your source has got me a little puzzled, if someone could please clarify for me?

It says that it's first prototype flew in december 1945 but it served 1942 to 1945?
it just doesn't make sense to me

Avanti

According to Shattered Sword there were two early D4Y1 on board the IJN Soryu at Midway, used as dedicated recon birds.  (Not they made made any big contribution.)  

And in Clash Of The Carriers, about the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" of June 1944, the "Judy" figures quite prominently, if not very successfully.  There's also an interesting aside about how one D4Y3 was used to deploy chaff to confuse USN radar, one of the few times the IJN ever did that.

For a carrier-based dive-bomber, the "Judy" had both high speed and long range, but I don't think either will make much difference in the MA.  Now, in FSOs or Scenarios...