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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2010, 06:38:39 PM »
na wildcat, I just never hear about the F2A in the game (always hear called the B239, brew, or brewster). I though you really were talking about the F2B.
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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2010, 06:41:59 PM »
It's cool, you still get the cookie.

Is it just me or has there been a little mini-flux of aircraft wishes?
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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2010, 06:44:58 PM »
IDK, maybe. I usually ask for GV's, but none of gotten any added as of yet, so I figure I might as well ask for some EW/MW planes.
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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2010, 07:11:38 PM »
Two Japanese 12.7mm guns are plenty to kill with.  You won't get many snap shot kills, but you will get kills.  I have killed with the two 12.7s on the Ki-84 multiple times and it is nothing like as manueverable as the Ki-43.

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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2010, 08:01:42 PM »
The Ki-43 was just as important to the IJ Army Air Force as the Zero was to the IJ Navy Air Service.  Honestly, I am surprised that HTC has over looked this plane to begin with.

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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2010, 08:23:15 PM »
The Ki-43 was just as important to the IJ Army Air Force as the Zero was to the IJ Navy Air Service.  Honestly, I am surprised that HTC has over looked this plane to begin with.
Two Japanese 12.7mm guns are plenty to kill with.  You won't get many snap shot kills, but you will get kills.  I have killed with the two 12.7s on the Ki-84 multiple times and it is nothing like as manueverable as the Ki-43.
5,900 Ki-43s were built and it is one of the most important missing aircraft in AH.

These. I'll agree you can get kills, no doubt about it, but the punch is nowhere as powerful as a tater. Japanese 12.7mm guns were formidable.
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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #21 on: August 24, 2010, 12:05:56 AM »
Aim for the cockpit, ever since I started doing that almost 80% of all my kills not are from a 1 second or less burst to the cokcpit, thats what the real Ki-43 pilots did
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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #22 on: August 24, 2010, 12:57:55 AM »
Aim for the cockpit, ever since I started doing that almost 80% of all my kills not are from a 1 second or less burst to the cokcpit, thats what the real Ki-43 pilots did

I suspect if they were told to aim for the cockpit it was probably the same reason it was recommended for US pilots.  In the Oscar and Zekes, the O2 tanks were located behind the cockpit and hits there would cause them to explode killing the pilot.

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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #23 on: August 24, 2010, 01:18:57 AM »
would be cool if HTC were to model that.
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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #24 on: August 24, 2010, 02:10:36 AM »
AH I see ack ack, I did not know that, although, I suspect that a Direct hit to the pilot was almost the only way a Ki-43 could bring down an F4U or F6F without using vast ammounts of ammo? I dont know how thiick the pilots back armour was on those planes but wasnt it almost an inch thick?
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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2010, 02:51:09 PM »
later models had 12.7mm (.50's) MG's and even 20mm cannons.
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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #26 on: August 24, 2010, 02:58:20 PM »
later models had 12.7mm (.50's) MG's and even 20mm cannons.

I don't think more than two prototypes (Ki-43-IIIb) were made with 20mm cannons and never entered into production by war's end.  That is if you can show any proof that the Ki-41-IIIb was produced (beyond the 2 prototypes) in numbers and saw active operational combat service on a squadron level.

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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #27 on: August 24, 2010, 03:03:14 PM »
Don't think they were produced in numbers, but my point is that the number of rounds it would take to bring down an F6F or an F4U would depend on the model of Ki-43.
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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #28 on: August 24, 2010, 04:11:11 PM »
Don't think they were produced in numbers, but my point is that the number of rounds it would take to bring down an F6F or an F4U would depend on the model of Ki-43.

No it wouldn't.

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Re: A few I would like to see
« Reply #29 on: August 24, 2010, 04:18:08 PM »
Don't think they were produced in numbers, but my point is that the number of rounds it would take to bring down an F6F or an F4U would depend on the model of Ki-43.

A "weaker" bullet in a more sensetive area of an F4U could do the same damage as a shot from a 20mm into the fuselage . Gun loadout has more to do with it that than with the model. Position of the bullet has more to do with it than model.
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