Is the TBM-3s good enough to be added to the game? I’ve been wondering about this for quite some time I was reading a manual regarding the TBM and 2 .50 cal mg in the wings with the option of up to 8 rockets sounds decent for low br, it cannot carry bombs(maybe I’m wrong) but it can carry a torpedo so it would be useful to naval players, correct if I’m wrong but the JMSDF did use them so is not some random plane that can be added to Japan
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The manual you have is Japanese or US one?
The US one, I don’t think is a manual, is an overview or something like that, however I did a quick search in Japanese and I found these 2 images which do show the aircraft with HVARs, machine gun wing holes and some mistery pod:
I did the “edit”
I will try to search more about it later
here’s where I downloaded the pdf: TBM-3S Avenger
seems like the site has removed certain files due to current politics so is probably legit
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The pod is a 350lb depth charge. The JMSDF did have contact fuses for their depth charges allowing them to work as regular bombs.
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Would significantly boost the low-tier CAS option for Japan, maybe couple it with the Thai OV-10C and you have a solid update for Japan
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Regarding Grumman TBM-3S2, as the creator of this suggestion I found information about this weapon.
Armament:
- Guns:
- 2 x M2 Browning machine guns caliber 12.7mm with wings (400 rpg; 800 rounds)
- Bombs:
- 4 x 147 kg (325lb) depth charges (in the bomb bay)
- 4 (?) x 158 kg (350lb) depth charges (in the bomb bay)
- 2 x 158 kg (350lb) depth charges (under the wings)
- 1 x torpedo Mk.34 (in the bomb bay)
- Other bombs: unknown
- Rocket
- 8 x FFAR 5-Inch rockets (under the wings)
- 8 x SCAR 2.25-Inch rockets (under the wings)
- Fuel dump tanks
- 1 x 568 l in additional tanks (under one of the wings)
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I want Ki-201 & J7W2 the most, we need new jets with four 30mm to fill the R2Y2 shaped hole in our hearts. :(
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J7W2 is more fictional than R2Y2. Work on R2Y2 actually started, and J7W2 didn’t even start design work. Something tells me that the second prototype of R2Y1 that was under construction, the Japanese wanted to convert into a prototype of R2Y2
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Not really, records clearly states the J7W1 was designed to get a jet engine later. It was planned to be doable from the very start the only thing holding it back was the jet engines never arrived, if they had used the Ne-20 engine that would been even worse than the prop they used not to mention less reliable!
They waited for the next engine that was gonna go into the Karyu which was not ready either due to mineral shortage, the mass-production was unfeasable and the only thing that stopped both from flying…
Edit: With the R2Y2 they used a unreliable source to figure out where everything had to go, making a unrealistic presentation based on fake info and speculation. If they implement the J7W2 there is no such problem! We know where the jet engine is suppose to go and we know approximately how fast it should have been…
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Maybe you’re right, but as far as I know, no design work has been started on the J7W2
True however I am looking at this from a game developer point of view, one is MUCH easier than the other to make realistic representation of in the game which makes me wonder why on earth they picked the R2Y2 over J7W2…
I don’t know, I just know that I want at least one new plane for Japan in a future update (apart from the F-2 of course)
At this point I just want somethign with four 30mm, preferable 3 of them to replace the R2Y2s but what candidate do we even have for 3rd? Ki-162 is probably just gonna have two guns and most likely 20mm since the He-162 broke itself apart by firing 30mm allegedly…
Ki-162… It’s fiction.
AFAIK it was a proposed idea at best, that is not much to go by but what else is a candidate tough?
The Japanese only received drawings of the He-162, but most likely did nothing with them. The Tachikawa Ki-162 is a fictitious name. Based on that, the He-162 was simply given the Ki appendix instead of the He. The Japanese did not do that. Then instead of the Ki-200 it would have been the Ki-163.
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A better idea is the Ki-202, on which design work has begun
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So the more likely name would been Ki-202 or 203 then? That makes sense.
Gaijin is gonna BR this thing into missiles lobbies further than Ki-200!
Edit: I assume you meant the first one?
This one looks like the Focke-Wulf Ta-183…
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Yes, Ki-202 vs F-22. An epic duel that Ki-202 wins, thanks to the power of the divine emperor Hirohito
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