The original J7W was unarmed, and never was fitted with any guns.
It was a interceptor demonstrator. that’s all it is to it.
besides having removed the R2Y2 the J7’s should also have been removed because there is no proof or images if it fielding any guns.
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Don’t we have the Xp-50?
Besides we have a batch of vehicles that were never fully completed or have shaky proof of existing. If they are fine then so is the O-I and J7W1
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I think same goes with the ho229
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It had mountings for guns inside of nose and mauntings for bomb pylons which after mounting will protrude beyond the wing cover
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I would not comment that fact that you ask proofs without sending it fisrtly but it is impossible to see mountings for internal weapon from outside.
But yes. Combat plane couldn’t be designed without weapon mountings at all
And yes, it is totally normal to use prototypes especially at first flights, without weapon as basic safety rules for pilot, prototype, and maintence crew.
The fact that first prototype at its first flight wasn’t armed means nothing in question that it cant be armed
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I mean we have artificially altered stuff already like the E100, Strumtiger and Tog II.
And yes I know naval follows different rules but there’s another example of incomplete stuff.
If you look at this image, there are no mountings or ports where the guns could have been installed in.
J7W1 was a unarmed prototype.
Hey, this conversation has gotten a bit off topic from what this thread is intended for. Lets try to get back on track and keep discussion in here for Japanese and Thai ground forces.
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First of all, both of these tanks never existed neither did their armnaments.
secondly the track link of the O-I in the museum as I stated before was placed there to gather hype for a tank game when they annonced Japan as a new nation.
It’s simple as that.
Japan is incapable of producing and utilising such heavy equipment.
I won’t talk about the Ho-ri because I haven’t read on its details.
Hasn’t stopped gajin before and won’t stop them now as they maintain the previous rules.
I’m 100% misreading your comment but are you trying to say that the track specifically built for a ww2 tank was only made so an unnamed tank video game gets more advertisment?
Also as stated by others, the track was made specifically for the O-I and it underwent tests with it’s hull and wooden turrets. As long as part of a vehicle specific to it was made, it counts as an unfinished prototype, which gajin will allow to be added in its planned finished config.
Also not having the capacity to fully make and build it doesn’t matter, iirc the Sovetsky Soyuz couldn’t have it’s in-game armour structure as the USSR at the time couldn’t produce it, however as the ship was laid down it, it counts as an eligible addition, including with its armour.
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"As long as part of a vehicle specific to it was made, it counts as an unfinished prototype, which gajin will allow to be added in its planned finished config."
Enjoy using a tank made out of structural steel.
because that’s the best they could produce.
Besides that how would one produce a accurate model from just a 2D drawing, essentially making it fictional in a game that touts as Historical Accurate.
Again, read on the paragraph about the Sovetsky Soyuz.
We have the Ostwind 2 and Zestorser 45 (although it should have a different name).
If we really want to go there then:
Why do destroyers ranging from 1915 to the 1940s keep fighting eachother?
Why are ahistorical teams in realistic possible?
Why are tons of prototype vehicles playable when barely any actually saw combat (Dicker max and Stuer Emil actually did, don’t know about any others)?
Why do post war vehicles like the Strikemaster Mk.88, Bosvark, Pbv 301 and L-39ZA constantly fight ww2 vehicles?
Why do we have multiple unfinished prototypes and ships across several nations in its finished config? (<—THE POINT IVE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE, AS HAVE OTHERS)
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You’re joking, right?
The track link of the O-I was already documented in an article by Suzuki Kunihiro (鈴木邦宏) in the October 1999 issue of 《アーマーモデリング (Armor Modeling)》, after he visited Wakajishi Shrine — long before WT or WOT were ever released.
That was a full 10 years before World of Tanks launched, and 15 years before the O-I appeared in any game. Are we really to believe that a Japanese tank researcher was influenced over a decade in advance to promote a game that didn’t even exist yet?
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man i love this guy
we’ve got our own RazorVon for the Japanese sections
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Who?
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he changed names now as AlvisWisla
but man he did what this guy does, and it is such a beauty in the forum
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Nice gun but there is no use because neither of those vehicles were fitted with those weaponry.
Otherwise you end up like Saryn talking about how the Chi-Se would be the perfect heavy tank for 7.3 Japan.
which is also a tank that is enterly fictional.