Author Topic: Nippon planes for next version! (Read 575 times)

1K3 · « **on:** March 23, 2007, 04:08:38 PM »

There's sporadic fans of Japanese planes. Gather here and show some love!:aok

Army Fighter

Ki-43-II-ko

- Early war version, armed with 2x 12.7mm guns, maximum speed of 330mph.

Ki-43-III-ko

- Late war version (december '44). It had Individual exhaust stacks to provide a certain amount of exhaust thrust augmentation. Armed with 2x Ho-5 cannons, maximum speed of 360mph.. Think of this as a mini Ki-84:)

Ki-44-II-ko

- This plane has the looks of P-47s with Bf 109F performance!

Navy Fighter

J2M3

Sleeker aerodynamics than the Fw 190. Armed with 4x 20mm cannons (2x Type 99 1 and 2x Type 99 2). The fastest IJN fighter in service.

Krusty · « **Reply #1 on:** March 23, 2007, 04:09:50 PM »

Personally, I'm surprised the Ki46 Dinah wasn't on the list Pyro gave. That one's been requested often, as well.

whiteman · « **Reply #2 on:** March 23, 2007, 04:25:10 PM »

if i had to vote for any it would be the J2M3, it would be nice to have a another Japanese fighter to choose from on the carrier.

Karnak · « **Reply #3 on:** March 23, 2007, 04:28:52 PM »

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Originally posted by whiteman
if i had to vote for any it would be the J2M3, it would be nice to have a another Japanese fighter to choose from on the carrier.

J2M3 wasn't carrier capable. The "J" designation on an IJN aircraft means "land based interceptor".

Treize69 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 23, 2007, 04:40:44 PM »

Ki-44 "Tojo"

http://www.xs4all.nl/~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/nakaki44.html

aztec · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2007, 05:10:04 PM »

I'll be happy with an Oscar.

Treize69 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 23, 2007, 05:12:31 PM »

Every time I get the urge to ask for an Oscar, I remember how useless it was in WarBirds 2.77...

Fun to fly, but absolutely useless to try and kill anything. Could barely knock a Ju-52 down with it, but the Ju could get you quite easily.

1K3 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 23, 2007, 05:23:16 PM »

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Originally posted by Treize69
Every time I get the urge to ask for an Oscar, I remember how useless it was in WarBirds 2.77...

Fun to fly, but absolutely useless to try and kill anything. Could barely knock a Ju-52 down with it, but the Ju could get you quite easily.

I dunno how they modelled it there but the machine guns in Ki 43 should be as powerful as the late war 109's machine guns. ki 43 and late war 109's nose machine guns almost have same ammount of rounds (~500-600)

whiteman · « **Reply #8 on:** March 23, 2007, 06:08:36 PM »

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Originally posted by Karnak
J2M3 wasn't carrier capable. The "J" designation on an IJN aircraft means "land based interceptor".

well then the part where he has it listed under navy fooled me.

Squire · « **Reply #9 on:** March 23, 2007, 07:36:14 PM »

We dont need another 1945 IJ bird, we need a 1943-44 one.

Ki-43-II
Ki-45

If you want a "mini Ki-84" why not just up the real thing instead? Or a N1K2?

Why do we keep asking for planes that do nothing but do what we already have?

G55 thread, ya, its a 205 in all but name.

Gianlupo · « **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2007, 07:40:05 PM »

Ik3, why do you keep opening new threads??? Can't you use only 1? it would be better...

Squire, G.55 is different from C.205... external similarities mean nothing... it was better... and better than LW planes, so better that the Germans want to produce it....

Karnak · « **Reply #11 on:** March 23, 2007, 07:40:07 PM »

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Originally posted by whiteman
well then the part where he has it listed under navy fooled me.

IJN = Navy. It was a Navy fighter, but land based and not carrier capable.

Karnak · « **Reply #12 on:** March 23, 2007, 07:40:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Squire
We dont need another 1945 IJ bird, we need a 1943-44 one.

Ki-43-II
Ki-45

If you want a "mini Ki-84" why not just up the real thing instead? Or a N1K2?

Why do we keep asking for planes that do nothing but do what we already have?

G55 thread, ya, its a 205 in all but name.

The Ki-44 and J2M3 are both 1943 birds, late '43 granted.

Squire · « **Reply #13 on:** March 23, 2007, 07:44:59 PM »

Ki-44 would get my vote, because it was widely used. The J2M3 is a bomber interceptor only, used in 1945. We dont need it, and it would be a hangar queen. We have the N1K2 already for a IJN 1945 ride, and its much better.

...or we could get a Kikka Jet with a n00k!!! wohoo!!!

Karnak · « **Reply #14 on:** March 23, 2007, 07:47:14 PM »

J2M3 saw first combat in 1943. It was subsequently canceled due to unpopularity and then put back into production in 1945 because it could actually fight at the altitudes that the Japanese were being attacked from.