Ki-43 coming!

[Babalonian]

I'm probabley mistaken, I know very little compared to others on IJ aviation, but I believe the one thing it could do better than a zeke (at comparable times of production) was dive....

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

The -II can handle dives much better then the -I's


-I's had the reputation of wings folding at higher speeds and while pulling out of dives, it was corrected with later versions tho.

edit: Also many allied pilots flying p40's could simply nose dive and out run the early KI's. This was mostly due to how light and under powered the Ki was, it had a hard time even PULLING itself out of the air and down to the ground. If anything this will be a plane you probably wont want to turn or try to out climb, unless your in some late war 109 or somethin'.

[titanic3]

It is not a carrier plane.  Any Japanese aircraft with a name starting as "Ki-" is an army aircraft.

I meant when a CV parks off the shore. 

[HighTone]

If I remember correctly, the Ki-43's had a lower max dive speed than there respective Zeke counterparts.

I'll double check and see if I can post the source.....but Wmaker will probably beat me to it. That's ok because he is always spot on with that stuff.

[Krusty]

Certainly A6M's operated from land bases, A6M2 did aswell. But to get events which are based on JAAF involvement Ki-43-II is a must. The Ki-61 AH has went to production in January 1944. I very much welcome Ki-43-I and hope it is coming but as far as JAAF goes, Ki-43-II gives a full year additional involvement. Just like I said, both JAAF fighter until now are from 1944.

I think you're nitpicking (just a little) based on the weapons loadout of our Ki-61. I would suggest, in fact, that our Ki-61 is much more like the Hei version armed with MG151/20s because of the rate of fire of the guns and what we have in-game, only the Hei's were in the wings and ours are in the nose. These were built in conjuntion with the Otsu on the same production lines and kits were sent out to units in the field to replace 7mm and 12.7mm wing guns with the MG151/20 guns. This was in 1943. Would I love to see the earlier versions of Ki-61s added to this game? Yes! However, until then they still fill in for a 1943 planeset well enough.

Just wanted to add this counter-point to the quoted comment.

I do hope HTC realizes the importance of a -I variant as well.

[Plawranc]

I was RTB once with no cannon and 14 rounds of MG......a 47 came from the nme field so i am guessing he just rolled and jumped me......14 rounds......one squeeze of the trigger and he died.....the luckiest pilot hit ever in the history of AH

Wrong  , I was in a Spit 8 in a furball, and a Spit 16 crossed my path, I fired one half second burst of 20mm and 303's, you know, only 10 rounds of 20mm, 30 rounds of 303

anyway

I stopped shooting instantly because I thought I would miss.....

1 20mm.... ONE hit sprite.

Cockpit shot , kill, 600 yards.

  no way

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Wrong  , I was in a Spit 8 in a furball, and a Spit 16 crossed my path, I fired one half second burst of 20mm and 303's, you know, only 10 rounds of 20mm, 30 rounds of 303

anyway

I stopped shooting instantly because I thought I would miss.....

1 20mm.... ONE hit sprite.

Cockpit shot , kill, 600 yards.

  no way

haha the 47 was much closer then that....but cmon 14 MG's (I was in KI84)is gotta be less power then 1 20

[dirtdart]

YES!!!!

My favorite plane to fly in "Pacific Fighters."

I can't wait to hear the brewster guys whine about the Ki-43 being overmodeled...lol  WMAKER! 

[Aspen]

Was reading a bit on the pilot that flew the default skin.  Apparently he lost a leg fighting a Mustang and was also tasked with learning a captured Mustang.  Flew with an artificial leg.

[Wmaker]

I think you're nitpicking (just a little) based on the weapons loadout of our Ki-61. I would suggest, in fact, that our Ki-61 is much more like the Hei version armed with MG151/20s because of the rate of fire of the guns and what we have in-game, only the Hei's were in the wings and ours are in the nose. These were built in conjuntion with the Otsu on the same production lines and kits were sent out to units in the field to replace 7mm and 12.7mm wing guns with the MG151/20 guns. This was in 1943. Would I love to see the earlier versions of Ki-61s added to this game? Yes! However, until then they still fill in for a 1943 planeset well enough.

Just wanted to add this counter-point to the quoted comment.

I do hope HTC realizes the importance of a -I variant as well.

Not based on a weapon load out. It is a 1944 variant, simple as that (weight is significantly different for example). Ki-61-Tei wasn't built in conjunction with the Otsu. It is its own significantly different variant that went to production in January 1944. What is nitpicking is saying how Ki-43-I is more important than -II when both are just as needed.

[Wmaker]

I can't wait to hear the brewster guys whine about the Ki-43 being overmodeled...lol   WMAKER!  

You won't hear me whine considering that I've waited 10 years for the Ki-43 to be included. But yes, Ki-43 will be poison for Brewster even without any modelling errors... 

[Seadog36]

This may be splitting hairs but i'd like to see this variant appear too  

it's pretty significant enough that this variant is ~20 mph faster (see exhaust stacks)

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Great pictures~ pretty grim with the cherry blossoms in the cockpit, is this a kamakazi flight?

[nrshida]

Great pictures~ pretty grim with the cherry blossoms in the cockpit, is this a kamakazi flight?

The second picture is from a controversial 2007 Japanese film the title of which translates to: 'For Those We Love'. You should watch it.

[Seadog36]

I'll have to watch that one~ I couldn't figure out the high res color picture. Thanks

~Seadog36

[Mitsu]

I still wish they will model Ki-43-III for LMA too...