Not in War Thunder. Inefficient doesn’t matter anything in the game.
Combat range is much closer than what USN and IJN anticipated(and similar to what Royal Navy and Kriegsmarine anticipated) when designing battleships. Bismarck’s gun will be enough to penetrate Iowa’s main armour and blow out magazine just below the waterline at 10 km. Yamato would be better, but definitely not impenetratable.
@Smin1080p_WT ive noticed that the controllable hangar guy can retain a lot of momentum when sprinting and then jumping constantly.
Did the devs give us Bhopping? (pls tutorial)
Or J7G I suppose.
According to a book published by AVIC (to be specific, Aviation Industry Press), it is improved from 7E and equipped with a small PD radar & HMD.
But the loadout remain unclear, at least not mentioned in the book.
Another Choice is the FTC200G (JL-9 variant), which is also, a J-7 but highly modified, dual seat, moving air inlet to the side. Using WP13F(C) as engine, PD radar and, ability to use SD10A and PL5EII.
It also has thermal pod as well as A2G ability.
Yes its an abysmally wasteful design (though any ship is better than no ship), but that’s not relevant in WT.
It has high pen, the fastest reload of any large calibre naval cannon, its fast, has very good gun handling, and it possesses the singular most busted armour scheme possible, despite it being ahistorically good but that’s not the issue.
So it and its sucessor H-39/40 will be more than capable of drastically overperforming.
It also doesn’t help that she’s 7,000 tonnes heavier than any of her direct equivalents meaning all ships designed to compete with her are at an inherent disadvantage.
@Smin1080p_WT Is there any report made about HMS Repulse’s number of hydroplane?
Currently it is only one, with no plane on hangar. It should be three(two in hangar, one in catapult) to four(two in hangar, one in catapult and one in deck).