All I’m asking is to not interpolate facts from other facts. You’re acting like there were never any exceptions in history, or changes to standards over time. Look at the changes in German naming conventions for aircraft.
Just give a source indicating which engine the plane had, that is all. But nobody has anything concrete, just an untrustworthy secondary source, and people on the internet trusting their pattern recognition abilities too much.
Not defending the 8.0s, I’m saying that people can do better in the Horten.
While that’s true, AFAIK the source for the Ki-43-III Otsu having a 1500hp engine to begin with is Francillion’s book, which is full of errors and is widely regarded as a pretty bad source.
That book itself doesn’t actually claim 1500hp either, it claims it used the Ha-112 but not its power output:
Which would line up perfectly with the Ha-115-II (that it now has in-game) that added water injection to greatly extend WEP time when compared to earlier Ki-43s.
I believe that’s just a simple typo and everything except the engine name itself says that’s a Ha-115, not the more powerful 112.
Oh, ok. I thought you were saying that the change to the Ha-115 and subsequent engine nerf was what came from an untrustworthy source? Bit of a miscommunication there.
