Ability to ability to customize payload for late Mitsubishi A6M

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My bug report was rejected as not a bug. Below is its content. Now I’m wondering what customize payload depends on. A6M5 Hei and A6M6c fighters are losing a lot of their CAS capabilities because they can’t customize their payload.

Ability to ability to customize payload for late Mitsubishi A6M. // Gaijin.net // Issues

Mitsubishi A6M5 Hei and A6M6c fighters should get the ability to customize their additional armament. These planes have a lot of options for under-fuselage armament (250 kg and 500 kg bombs) and under-wing armament (60 kg bombs and rockets). Even planes with less varied or similarly varied payloads can adjust their extra load (for example, the L-39ZA/ART, F-104J or Pe-3). Not being able to customize the load on the A6M5 Hei and A6M6c forces you to use either just rockets or bombs, which limits what these planes can do, instead of letting them use both bombs and rockets like other planes can (for example, the F6F-5, P-47D, or Il-2).

Additionally, it’s worth noting that the Yokosuka D4Y2 and D4Y3 Ko in the game have access to a custom payload, even though it has a similarly varied additional load or even a less varied load than the A6M5 Hei and A6M6C.

  • Payload Yokosuka D4Y3 Ko
    Zrzut ekranu 2026-10-02 165753

  • Payload Yokosuka D4Y2
    Zrzut ekranu 2026-10-02 165806

  • Payload Mitsubiahi A6M5 Hei and A6M6c
    Zrzut ekranu 2026-09-27 192708

I don’t understand at all why the Mitsubishi A6M5 Hei and A6M6c don’t have access to customize payload. It’s a senseless restriction on what these planes can do.

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Historically, it doesn’t make sense either, because the Mitsubishi A6M5 Hei fighters served as heavy intercept fighters (heavily armed and armored compared to the regular A6M5) and also as attack aircraft (along with the better-suited Mitsubishi A6M7). Blocking the custom payload is clearly another step in preventing Japan from having effective WW2-era CAS planes (just like blocking bombs and guided rockets for the Kawasaki Ki-102 Otsu).

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It was probably classified as “not a bug” because you did not provide any meaningful evidence it should be customisable.

If you reformated your bug report + provided proof that A6M’s FCS allows separated/multiple secondary weaponry release, then it would be considered a bug.

Otherwise it is pretty much “they have it, and I want it too because they have it”

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After all, the A6M can carry both 250 kg and 60 kg bombs simultaneously in the game. It is literally just Gaijin’s decision as to which aircraft has customizable payloads and which doesn’t.

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Maybe, but if we are about bug reports, without having specifics and providing proofs for those specifics you gotta deal with BRMs

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