Ho229 V3 engine thrust and handling issues have not been solved, and now face F86A and mig15? Looks like it's time for me to give up ho229 and give up WT

Machinery of War Discussion Aircraft
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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:

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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.

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That is exactly what I referred to by “untrustworthy secondary source”. These numbers do make sense (that it isn’t what it’s named).

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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.