the ki-44 -II has, when spaded, a top speed of 395 mph, which isn’t all that bad. i use it to a lot of success at 4.7
i’m not gonna lie i got no idea what ur even talking about or how this is supposed to be a valid strategy. i said the most likely thing that happened was the ki44 cooked his engine. this “tactic” ur talking of makes absolutely no sense and doesn’t even address the large difference in t:w that i showed.
Planes have a tradeoff between induced and parasitic drag. the ki44 accelerates faster at 360kmh ias and below so this is completely incorrect
And what do you even mean by “it does perfectly well against stuff like N1k2j, Ta-152 H1, Ki-94-II”? N1k significantly outclimbs and outturns it. TAH outclimbs it at <2.5km, is marginally worse higher and easily outturns the f4u with flaps. Idk what the ki-94 is. sure in an ideal world the f4u4 would probably be 4.7 but that clearly isn’t true is it? and unless there’s a difference with the performance of vehicles in sim which i asked about but you didn’t reply you are completely wrong. Because I have used the f4u4 and had a ki44ii on the same team, when i climbed to 3.5 or 4km he was already at 5km and cruising to the enemy team.
Any american plane goes that fast without even trying…