We’ve officially lost the plot.
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Mr worldwide the tech tree
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are you stating a fact or something? or are we playing 2 different games?
I’m looking for information for this vehicle so I can make a Japanese Infantry suggestion
I got the Japanese translated to this:
特型警備車
Tokugata Keibisha
→ Special Security Vehicle (Special Riot Control Vehicle)
暴動などが起きたときに、しずめるのに使われます。
→ Used to suppress riots and similar disturbances.
投石などにも耐えられるように頑丈に作られています。
→ It is sturdily built so that it can withstand stone-throwing and similar attacks.
This is for a Japanese Riots And Tactics Squad (RATS) squad suggestion and this vehicle can be the APC core vehicles. Similar to how in enlisted there are transport trucks.
Any info will help in this as it seems to be a rare version.
So far I found a toy of it:
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im talking about in game
then we must be playing 2 different games, even the stat card(which is worst for giving information)of the AIM-7M have less Max overload than the AIM-120A
Why does the current Japanese F15J sit with only four aam-4 but can carry 8 of the AIM-120a, I feel like this was a balancing decision that never got reverted when newer airframes came to the game.
The AAM-4 is Sparrow sized and uses the same launchers. It’s not compatible with the wing mounted LAU-128 like the AMRAAM is.
got it
Would’ve been funny if they made special pylon extensions to carry AAM-4s on the wings, like the Israeli Baz has those Python 3 pylons too, imagine that
While looking through an old Japanese book, I came across some unique content and wanted to share it. That said, it concerns a weapon that was ultimately not adopted, and as far as I have been able to research, I have found no information beyond the following photograph and its accompanying description.
The photo shows a 2.75-inch rocket pod that the APG (the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s experimental unit) was testing on the F-86F-40. As you may know, it was never put into practical use and remained only at the testing stage, but it seems that such a weapon did exist.
I apologize for interrupting the flow of the discussion about modern fighter aircraft.
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looks like a suggestion
Also very Soviet looking I wonder if the team had some inspiration.
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Yes, when I first saw it, I also imagined Soviet rocket pods (S5K and S8).
Even if they didn’t have the actual item, there were reference materials such as photographs, so they may have used those as references.
It would be interesting if I could make a suggestion, but aside from this photo, I can’t find any information at all (not even online), so it seems difficult. If I happen to find useful information while gathering materials, I’ll try making a suggestion.
definitely there are plenty of USSR military film rolls that where sent everywhere and rocket pods are not on the same information secrecy level of a atom bomb so the engineers maybe got some inspiration from such films. Anyway soviet rocket pods are considered very good and used to this day so that says something.
I’m sure there is a 60% chance they accept it sell it as a unique weapon for a USA plane in the Japanese plane. Something to spice up the aircraft in the tree also the rockets on the plane suck. Try to estimate the rocket size and bring up any directives the military might have been under at the time. Worse suggestions have been accepted yours is very solid with that image and its on a plane.
F-86F’s with rocketpods aren’t unique to Japan though since Argentine, Portuguese and Spanish F-86’s also used rocketpods as well even though they used different rockets.
Really good find though
I purchased several experimental historical documents from a test unit of the Japan Self-Defense Forces from a secondhand bookstore.
In addition to needing to determine whether these materials can be made public, they are documents that take time to interpret. While checking whether there is anything usable in them, I plan to provide information to both the AAM-I topic and the AAM-II topic as well.
(I decided not to purchase the 398 USD document I mentioned in the other topic. I only bought the 155 USD and 50 USD documents.)
Here, I will share information about a unique weapon found in those materials.
Separate from the F-86F rocket pods mentioned the other day, the documents reveal that the Japan Self-Defense Forces had completed development of an indigenous 70 mm air-to-air rocket intended to replace the Mighty Mouse.
This was intended to replace the 24-tube Mighty Mouse rocket system of the F-86D with a domestically produced 70 mm rocket round, and its required performance was equivalent to that of the Mighty Mouse.
Although the tests were successfully completed, by the time testing ended the era of AAMs had already begun (the schedule lists AAM-1 testing, and the periods overlap), and the introduction of the F-104 was beginning to be considered. As a result, it was ultimately not adopted.
It was the story of a unique weapon that did not remain in history.
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Very interesting find! To my knowledge, anything before 1983 can pretty much be assumed to be declassified by default, due to laws for extension of classification past 30 years not being introduced untill 2013.
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D3A1 is getting an updated model(if I heard correctly):
And I know a lot of you were asking for it but we got another premium German aircraft for Japan!(joke of course):
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It wasn’t even given a proper name. The Me-210 was sold to Japan as the A-1. It also lacks a bomb load and has a wrong max speed. It’s basically just a C&P of the German Me-210 A-1. They could have at least tried a little harder and given it a different aircraft.
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