AoA buff is also really good
It is, but even the current AoA limit is very high for a prop, most seem to do 12-13deg max. Clearly it isn’t benefitting much from that.
That is a later Ki-61-II, with the cut-down canopy that the Ki-100 also later received.
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Bell H-13 prob was used to test different weapons.
well Japan would have something very useful and fun to grind in rank V.
Tachikawa Ki-162 lost brother of He 162.
Ki-201 lost brother of Me 262.
Jet powered J7W1
Kogisho Tenga (P1Y1 with jet engines) lost brother of Ar 234.
But it is not coming to reality since this game is more about modern stuff.
Toshiba unveiled a new aesa radar which seems to be for GCAP estimates put it at around ~1806 (not my estimate)
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More on GCAP seems like Japan will take the lead in the airframe design and structure with emphasis on composite material technology. I believe they are also in charge of engines by MHI. U.K will focus on electronics with possibilities of Japan and U.K coming eith their own radars its unknown so far if each nations GCAP will differ a bit.
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J7W3? Also, aren’t there was (planned) turboprop J7W2?
The end of the war also spelled the end of the J7W2 Shinden-Kai. This was to be the tur¬ bojet-equipped version of the Shinden. The use of the radial engine had been a stop gap until a suitable turbojet was available. The Ne 12B was rejected as its power was consid¬ ered too low to effectively propel the aircraft. In any case, work was by this time under way on the Kugisho Ne 20 turbojet that was based on the German BMW 003A engine, the only turbojet built and flown in a Japanese aircraft: the Nakajima Kitsuka (page 114). The J7W2 was to use the Ne 130 turbojet, also based on the BMW 003A, which was being developed by Ishikawajima-Shibaura. The Ne 130 was to have produced nearly double the thrust of the Ne20; however, the Nel30 would not be ready by the close of the war and as such the J7W2 remained a design board aircraft. There is speculation concerning what the J7W2 would have looked like. One suggestion is that the J7W2 would have been the J7W1 with the Mitsubishi radial replaced with the Nel30 turbojet. A second suggestion con¬ cerns the fact that without the need for pro¬
peller clearance the Shinden could dispense with the tall landing gear, thus lowering the height of the aircraft. Aside from modifying the landing gear, the vertical stabilisers, fuse¬ lage and canopy shape may also have required adjustment. It is likely that had development of the J7W2 commenced with the availability of the Ne 130, a J7W1 airframe would have been adapted to accept the engine and testing conducted on this, with other modifications coming into play as a pro¬ duction J7W2 was standardised.
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The Ne-130 is already in the in-game R2Y2, so I guess it’s not impossible? The J7W2 is one of my most wanted early jets, unfortunately I don’t see it ever being added.
Yeah its so sad that they added only R2Y2s but not Tachikawa Ki-162 and other projects.
That could be great rank V.
I haven’t seen anything on the Ki-162.
The rest I’m aware of, though the jet-powered P1Y1 would be quite bad I think. Would be slow for a jet and with poor acceleration. J7W2 stands out since it would have better performance than the J7W1 from 400kph onwards (above this speed Ne-130 would produce more thrust than existing radial), which is exactly where the J7W airframe wants to be.
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Basically He 162 but with japanese army weapons.
Cool I guess. I don’t really want a straight copy with only weapons changed.
The engine is probably worse.
In WoA it has 30mm Ho-155
There is book about all secret projects: Japanese Secret Projects: Experimental aircraft of the IJA and IJN 1939-1945
