Is it just me or does the Ki-49-II Otsu (late) seem like the most pointless plane in the Japanese tech tree? The only difference from the regular Ki-49-II Otsu is a modified engine cowling and it’s slightly faster. I still wonder why it was added to the game. The Ki-49-II Hei or Ki-49-III would have been better, although the appearance of the latter is unknown.
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Probably to get the record for “most planes on a simulation game” and to pump up the vehicle numbers with less effort. There are similar aircraft like the Spitfire MK 22 and 24 where they only differ from the 24 having better speed and an extra armament preset.
I personally don’t mind them as long as they are foldered as they are still different variants, even if it’s not by much.
It would be nice if there was at least a difference in armament. Historically, the Ki-49-II Otsu (late model) should have been better defensively armed.
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Ki-49-II Otsu (latest) perhaps? /J
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Decided to throw another AAM-3 bug report at the wall.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/nqHhKVtfzpZ4
There’s honestly more I could’ve included about how clutter rejection works. Where it works by comparing waveform amplitudes, and about how dual band seekers actually make it able to perform very similar to gatewidth + tracking suspension anyways. As tracking can still be maintained as long as interfearence isn’t to similar to the phase and amplitude. But I didn’t feel like making the report a mile long going over clutter rejection algorithms and all the ways they can work.
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I was mistaken. The largest aircraft gun planned by the Japanese navy was of 76.2 mm caliber. It was the gun 仮称五式空八糎砲 (Temporarily called Type 5 Air Gun 8cm). However, the Japanese army used the Type 88 75 mm gun in the Ki-109, and for the Ki-93 Otsu, the Ho-501 gun was developed and probably built, which was based on the Type 41 75 mm mountain gun. Additionally, Ho-601 guns of 120 mm caliber and Ho-701 guns of …
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that’s fine hopefully it could fire a HEAT round
The Ho-501 cannon, which is a modified Type 41 75 mm mountain gun, uses the same ammunition as the 75 mm Type 99 cannon from the Type 2 Ho-I tank. This means the Ki-93 Otsu had HEAT shells with 90 mm penetration or APHE shells with 41 mm penetration. That is much better than the Ho-401 cannon on the Ki-102 Otsu, which would have 55 mm penetration with HEAT shells or 21 mm penetration with APHE shells.
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we should’ve gotten more variants of the much better Ki-67 lol
I believe there is the Ho-401 57 mm gun too
Weren’t you referring to the Ho-402 57mm cannon that the Ki-93 Ko is equipped with? Unfortunately, I don’t know the penetration of its shells. I know it should probably have the same shells as the Ho-401, only with a higher muzzle velocity.
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I want the Ki-109 that kept the bomb bay and turrets
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I do too would be a good strike fighter. Though it would be heavy.
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I love the dragonball reference here.
An illustration commemorating the 40th anniversary of the opening of Nyutabaru Air Base was painted on the nose. The serial number of No. 400 was changed to 40 and surrounded by a laurel wreath, and the amusing illustration shows the F4 mascot, Spook, emitting the word “Kamehameha.” “Kamehameha” is an energy blast fired by the main character of the popular Japanese anime “Dragon Ball.” This photo was taken at Nyutabaru Air Base on December 10, 1997.
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Historically accurate
Also one could write a Decal suggestion and no anime company could get angry about this one!
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I also came across this image.
I wondered if this was a F-4EJ with an externally mounted AN/ALE-47 Countermeasure dispenser pod?
I mean it could also be misintrepreted towing pod for a towed aerial target though.
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They should add T-6 Tora Tora edition as a premium simply for the memes. 🤣
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Has Tora Tora Tora’s copyright expired yet? There are a few old WW2 movies that are old and had some funky paint jobs on some tanks. If intellectual property has ended one could suggest it as a skin because these movies are culturally important for peoples understanding of the war. (I wonder if North Korea has painted up T-55 as a Japanese tank for some movie prop once or twice)
German Patton tanks movie Patton
Also if any of the Japanese or it sub tree’s T-6 gets added (aka can be armed even if a little). A GE skin referencing Tora Tora Tora would be something I would buy.
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