Actually, as many as 5 different modifications of the Ki-43-II are shown here. This is where the problem with naming the plane appears. Well, unless you know the date of the modification.
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let’s pray
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Yes, there’s so many that introduction dates become necessary. Although finding those is probably next to impossible for all 5 revisions…
Interestingly, the Bunrindo book claimed that all Ki-43s with the Ho-103s had 270rpg, even the -II and -III. In-game these two have 250rpg and only the earlier -I gets 270rpg.
Do you know anything about this? I might bug report it later if this table is accurate.
I checked all the books and PDFs I have and then searched on the internet. None of my books or PDFs give the amount of ammunition for the Ki-43. The only thing I found is this:
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Alright, if I make a bug report I’ll link it here then.
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I think more information should be checked before reporting
Grzegames has quite a lot of source material and if he’s not found anything in his stuff, me finding it will be near impossible. Bunrindo books always seem to be very well sourced even if short, and the only other source I have is the TAIC manual which I would not trust.
I’d have to look for some good Ki-43 books and that could take a while. Maybe Maru Mechanics has an edition for it.
I found the German magazine “FlugRevue - Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa” and the American book “Profile Publications Aircraft 046 - Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa”. Both claim that the Ki-43 carried 250 rounds to the Ho-103 machine gun
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Maybe I really should look for some more stuff on it…
An aside from all this: my irancat finally sold and I think I know what I want to do with the money…
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I checked ~15 PDF books. I found only this information. I bought four magazines, including one about Ki-43. Maybe there will be some useful information there
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update:
I am now the proud owner of one J6K Jinpu
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have fun dabbing on early jets!
be sure to grab the market skin for 2 bucks
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I’m not touching air rb until the new BI owners get bored from it lol
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I think I figured out a way to get a GCS-1 to have LOAL without gaijin introducing dedicated LOAL mechanics. Basically, you give it detection bands for the ground, which you set really high, then increase the pre-launch FoV to a very high number, like 60, and make it so it no longer sees the sun. Then you turn off it’s ability to gimbal, set up a time to target to gain value.
What this will do, is allow the missile to be launched without a lock on a target, as it will lock the ground, as the ground will basically always be in the FoV of the seeker, but after it launches and sees the ground it will shrink to it’s actual size. Due to the time to target to gain value, it won’t actually guide until it gets close to the target, and since it has no gimbal it will just be stuck pointing straight ahead with the reduced FoV. So it doesn’t start guidence until it’s close enough to the target that the lower range bands for vehicle IR signatures will allow them to be picked up, thus causing it to guide towards them.
Working on trying to get this tested out, will send updates.
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It’s an OK/less-than-average plane; literally my most played vehicle. It’s overtiered as hell. Good luck bro
this thing is amazing at CAS, works so well in the ground lineup
how is someone even flying that? that thing have like 1 min full fuel tank. fuel on shusui is already pain and thats 4 min
You see BI is small and fast, also it face props and early jets.
Meanwhile Ki-200 faces cold war jet aircraft.
Also the airfield location. Because in higher tiers it is farther.
BIs have way better fuel efficiency than the Ki-200 at low throttle, and get to fight props instead of jets. At 6.7 its easily the most broken plane.
I like it. Very fun in Sim.
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