The O-I was never completed yes, but it was partially built and thus meets the requirements to be added
Japan's phantom multi-turret heavy tank Oi vehicle gajin themselves seem to think so
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Gaijin also believed the R2Y2’s to be a thing.
you are not proving anything.
OI was never built to begin with.
but this track link at a museum
That one is just a prop to hype up some Japanese tanks for a tank game.
It’s the same with a J7W1 replica to hype up Godzilla Minus One
The R2Y2s were there because of a lack of options and were removed when the Thai air force arrived.
The point is that if gajin thinks there isn’t enough evidence of it having progress made, then it wouldn’t even be a suggestion.
They could have added the T33, JASDF Vampire and the T-1 to fill in the replacing jets.
But again the OI never existed.
it’s just some pipedream the IJA were smoking back then because did not had the manufacturing capacity to build and field such tanks.
the tests are from different vehicles misinterpreted into one vehicle.
Most likely it’s a test of a Chi-To.
There is surviving documentation of its hull being built and tested. The surviving track link is what survived of it after the hulk inevitably sunk into the mud and was subsequently scrapped, and that was before the turret was ever completed.
There is no confusion over it being a “test of a Chi-To,” the documents directly reference the O-I as the tank being tested.
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any one know what is this ABCD mode for?
FCS on F-1 for ASM1 but what is that for?
O-I did exist. Not in the form shown above.
None of the very specific driver comments would make sense for a Chi-To.
What does the J7W have to do with this?
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That would be some insane marketing, “send the Japanese empire a blueprint on this specific plane so it can be used in a film many years into the future”
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God do I love the J7W1, if only it was 5.0 I would never fly anything else…
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They wanted to hype up the movie back then too
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Sekrit IJAF contingency plan
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Hey any chance we can convince the JASDF to put a J7W2 into service IRL? I have an idea…
It’s a beautiful plane. If it was 5.0 I’d play it a lot more, at 6.0 it’s still very outclassed. Or maybe they should give it a hilarious UFO flight model, that’d be entertaining.
EDIT: also just remembered this is the ground discussion thread lol, J7W is now banned!
EDIT 2: as a sidenote i’m pretty sure that’s the excellent (and expensive) 1/32 Zoukei-Mura model kit. It’s in my wishlist and I’m tempted to get it on christmas…
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Interesting photo I’m just taking a guess and say maybe it has something to do with flight pattern(?
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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