You’re self sabotaging if that’s your goal
Playing bad planes is even more self sabotaging,as they require a lot more effort to do anything, and you either play too safe and end up against overwhelming odds or you just end up in 1 unwinnable scenario after another.
Learning to dogfight better requires dueling,as Air RB is anti-dogfight environment and by trying deliberately to go “dogfighting” you’re just increasing enemy’s kill ratio.
that is true, but how many american planes can match that climb and turn time? (lol not an actual question, i used to be a us main and know)
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They dont need to climb faster than you, all you need is to be higher than the enemy and not turn at all
They can’t BnZ the ki-44 if its BnZing them…
If you arent above the enemy thats a skill issue
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Why don’t you check Ki-44’s climb rate first?
Why don’t you check the climb rate and sustained speed for both at shallow climb angles?
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Side climb, its all you need to do
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the ki-44-II has a climb rate of 18.8 m/s, while the P-51C-10, at the same br, is about a hundred kmh faster and yet has a climb rate of 16.2 m/s
Yes, it climbs better, it also loses a lot of performance as you pass 4km of alt, so all you have to do, as an USA plane, is climb pass 4km of alt and you become a missile compared to the Ki-44-II
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it is a great plane and my favourite plane i even got false banned from how much kills i was getting from it but most people playing it are dog shit braindead and its Japanese 🤢 so it has weak wing and weak tails that seem to be even worsely welded then Boeing welding stereotype
The game data shows the ki-44ii hei to have an empty weight of 2015kg, including weapons, with no ammo, fuel and oil. Which is extremely underweighted compared it with the corresponding weight of 2300kg in the manual about the machine in all consumed state(no ammo, no fuel). Also, the empty weight is even lighter than the empty weight of ki-44i.
However, when I fully loaded the plane with 100% fuel in game, the plane weights around 2762kg, which fits the manual data of 2765kg gross weight( the manual states ki-44ii using 2x12.7 and 2x7.7, so still a bit around 50 kg underweighted). It turns out that Gaijin installed a 110kg A.D.I. tank for the ki-44ii that never existed in history. So yes ki44ii does get correct weight, though the empty mass data looked weird. But the weight of J2M2 and A7M2 seems to be surely underweighted.
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idk why ur using absolute power as opposed to P/W.
I dont see anyone saying the p51 and j2m have similar climb rates. I think climb rate isn’t directly proportional to P/W but its close enough (otherwise the p-51 would have a worse climb rate than the p47-d28 below 2km which it doesn’t). Idk, I think the ki44 is busted. It doesn’t compress at all untill 650 kmph IAS which is really weird considering most if not all other Japanese planes compress much earlier. Very weird. People in this chat are saying its slow when it’s one of the fastest Japanese planes br for br. F4u being able to stall fight a ki44 doesn’t mean it’s not busted, the f4u4 should be 4.7 (not 5.0 unless u wanna kick the p51d30 up to 5.3 since the p51d30 is preeeeetty much an better f4u4) in the first place, and it excels at stall fights. I wouldn’t even think it could stall fight with ki44 but ill take ur guy’s word on that. Might need to do some 1v1s to test that claim.
Yeah this plane isn’t slow idk what you guys are talking about. It’s faster than the yak-9s at 4.0 on the deck, yeah FASTER. Altho the yak-9s aren’t particularly good. Something that is good is the La-5FN, a formidable foe, whose top speed is 563 kmph. The yak-3s top speed is 572 kmph. So it’s only slightly slower than the USSR’s best 3.7 plane while having superior mobility, flaps, and climb-rate. And I think the La-5 is under Bred too.
Chart showcasing the La-5, Ki-44 and p-51s P/W ratios. They are both leagues ahead. Ki-44s high altitude performance isn’t as bad as people are making it out to be, sure it’s very bad compared to it’s own performance at low altitudes. BUT, it still climbs fast at higher altitudes regardless of that. But if you do find urself in an American plane above 7km for whatever reason, as I have seen you can energy trap ki-44s, but it takes an ungodly amount of time and isn’t practical to do in 25 minutes. Ki-44 was probably the most brain dead plane i’ve played, it does everything decently to great. Decent top speed, amazing climb rate, great nose authority, sightly above average turn performance at low speeds and above average mobility between 500-650 kmph, and good guns with a lot of ammo for their fire rate. Def should be 4.0 or 4.3, it has no bis being at 3.7. Same with p51c10.
Also i saw some dude trying to say the spitfire mk IX is under BRed when its power to weight ratio isn’t even that good. It’s not even comparable to the ki-44s bruh. That things engine is tuned for extremely high altitudes. A lot of planes can energy trap a spitfire mk IX if you run for long enough. IMO it’s probably the most balanced spitfire br for br. Unless they were referring to the LF mk IX in which case I agree.
Because p/w is wrong most of the time since it doesn’t take propeller efficiency or drag into account.
Japan has no fast planes. The Ki-44-II is still slow when you compare it to any other nation.
The only Yak-9 at 4.0 is the 9T. Apart from the 37mm gun, it is otherwise identical to the 3.0 one and that’s not a particularly strong plane down there.
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This ^ and this:
looks like you made some assumptions without looking at the whole picture.
As stated by @PercussionCap drag plays a key role regarding top speed. So if you have a faster plane and you managed to get an altitude advantage climb rates become irrelevant - it doesn’t matter if your power-to-weight is better or not as the slower aircraft needs to outclimb you (which makes it even slower) in order to dive on you. This does not work if the US plane extends in level flight.
If you put in the F6F-5 vs the Ki-44s in the chart you will find out that the Ki-44s have a way superior P/W ratio - but even the F6F-5 is able to outrun a Ki-44 if you have managed to outclimb it.
run bro. don’t turn with it.
The heavier J2M5, despite appearing very disadvantaged in a p/w chart:
Is on par and then beats the Ki-44-II in climb rate. At 5km it is ahead of the Ki-44 and the latter never catches up. This is a common altitude to exceed in Air RB and despite the J2M5’s fame it’s not that good of a climber.
Here’s the marketplace Mk9 (slightly heavier than tech tree one) and a P-38J. This looks great for the Ki-44 until you realize that the P-38J would have an airspawn (putting it above the Ki-44 for the entire run) and the spitfire makes so much extra power up high that the Ki-44’s only choice is to dive away once the fighting starts, unless the spitfire just throws.
And finally, I alluded to prop efficiency being a factor earlier. And it is. Simply put, the Ki-44 has a subpar propeller.
The P-38’s only looks bad at the end since I got distracted and went a little too slow, it really doesn’t like that.
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