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Offline Void

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Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
« on: February 01, 2012, 05:36:06 PM »
Yokosuka D4Y2 Suisei (Comet) (The Allies called all variants "Judy")





First Flight: November 1940

Power: One Aichi 1400hp Atsuta 32 piston engine

Armament: Two 7.7mm/0.303in forward firing and one 7.92mm/0.31in Rear-firing machine-gun; up
to 800kg/1761lb Bomb load

Size: Wingspan - 11.5m/37ft 8.75in
        Length - 10.22m/33ft 6.25in
        Height - 3.74m/12ft 3.25in
        Wing area - 23.6mē/254sq ft

Weights: Empty - 2440kg/5370lb
Maximum take-off - 4250kg/9354lb

Performance: Maximum speed -550kph/ 342mph
Ceiling - 10,700m/35,105ft
Range - 1465km/910 miles
Climb - 820m/2700ft per minute

A total of 2038 were built

Sorry if I have information typos, I did not copy and paste the information above.
I know this was wished in the past, just wanted to bring this up again.
I would like to have this aircraft in-game because it is quite exotic and many other simulators and games don't have this plane in its inventory. (Besides Battlestations Pacific, its the only game I know the D4Y is implemented in.)
 
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Re: Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2012, 05:51:15 PM »
It's been asked before, it generally gets overlooked - we certainly need to polish off the Japanese inventory.
Also some of those stats posted are way off.

+1 I would love to see late war Japanese planes :\
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Re: Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2012, 06:02:33 PM »
It's been asked before, it generally gets overlooked - we certainly need to polish off the Japanese inventory.
Also some of those stats posted are way off.

+1 I would love to see late war Japanese planes :\

That's strange, the book that I got it from and ..erm.. wikipedia........ has the same stats. I'll check someplace else...
But besides that i'm glad your on the same boat as me.  :aok
 
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Re: Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2012, 06:09:23 PM »
Those stats all look ballpark correct to me.  It was the fastest dive bomber of the war.
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Re: Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2012, 06:24:42 PM »
I was thinking it had a pair of 20mm in the wings, but I am showing 560kg of bombs max - I need to dig up more Japanese aircraft books.

I do know it topped out around 350-360 mph - not sure if that was heavy or clean.
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Re: Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2012, 08:40:48 PM »
D4Y JUDY
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Re: Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2012, 08:55:45 PM »

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Re: Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2012, 09:18:04 PM »
Another one that would be a good addition.

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Re: Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2012, 09:43:20 PM »
I was thinking it had a pair of 20mm in the wings, but I am showing 560kg of bombs max - I need to dig up more Japanese aircraft books.

I do know it topped out around 350-360 mph - not sure if that was heavy or clean.



Only this attacker had 20mm in the wings... :)