It depends heavily on aircraft, even past the IAS limit you could still pull out in, say, a 109 if you were strong enough; finnish pilots did it many times.
It was lightly built, how do you think they got such low weight out of it while maintaining relatively heavy armament?
This is just extremely biased, nobody was putting a 5G limit on a frontline fighter halfway through WW2.
Nowhere, in any literature about these aircraft that I’ve come across, have such low structural limits been mentioned, and cases of pilots simply ‘breaking their planes’ would be everywhere - ESPECIALLY in a nation that emphasized dogfighting in their training (part of the reason why the early Ki-43s were considered a failure, they could not beat the earlier Ki-27s in a close-in duel).
The closest I’ve seen is the “6G” limit on the A6M, but that was more of a suggestion and the ultimate load factor was still 12G, the same as the P-51 when clean.
I haven’t really gotten to the Ki-84 yet, but this has also not been mentioned anytime anywhere. Higher stick forces were more likely to disincentivize pilots to get in close, slow dogfights where they would be easy prey for vastly more numerous USAAF or USN fighter groups.
This is more plausible, however data is both scarce and contradictory. Again, TAIC report claimed “very high diving speed” which it did not for the Ki-43, which is KNOWN to be limited in the low-mid 600s.
It is very nice information. Could I ask you, isn’t there any mention about any Fire Extinguisher system what was used for extinguishing firing fuel tanks or engine in Ki-61 or Ki-100?
Desert Storm was just Ground Pound Simulator. The air force did all the work, the US Army and Marines just took over AFTER the US Air Force did all the work.
Ukraine is different, if you were actually there instead of listening to that propaganda crap on the news, you would know. Everyone wants to talk about that Bradley that destroyed the gunner optic on a T-80, but yet Ukraine was losing all their gifted tanks in the most stupid of ways, because they don’t know how to actually run a bloody army. I was there, and my God were we given idiots to lead us. At least most of us were too high and too drunk to care about being thrown into the meat grinder.
I wish I could tell my Ukrainian friend this without him getting angry.
And yes Ukraine isn’t even reporting their loses just the Russian tanks (both sides do the same though).
Oh i forget infamous one the valley of tears that IDF using modified British Centurion got out numbered by T-55 and T-62 yet still manage to stop all of them
Russian tanks soooo scary hah?
Mate, I probably had the best logistics in Ukraine simply because I was buying “fun stuff” from Amsterdam. The only reason the lads and I did majority of the stuff we were told to do is because we were all too high to even say different. Halfway through a skirmish my vision was being torn apart like one of those wicker baskets and I lived a lifetime as a blade of grass before realising, “oh wait, I’m being shot at”
Hell, there’s a reason Russia doesn’t have a “smack” epidemic anymore, and it’s because we all stole their stash. Hell, I knew a guy who smoked out of his rifle. Maybe that’s why Russia isn’t as effective anymore, we stole their stash and they don’t have a reason to keep going.
Tell your friend to go serve his country. I went down because my ex left me and I was bored of farming. Had the best time of my life: great food (well, considering we were on the brink of starvation at all times, any food tastes good), great friends (who will probably lose their lives by the end of the week), good entertainment (like “young ones” who will do the stupidest stuff and… now you have an extra magazine and you can swap rifles), and you forget all your troubles (by constantly worrying about artillery, drones, and trying not to frag your mates because who the hell can tell the difference between Ukrainian and Russian with zero hours of sleep and a massive hangover). And best of all, everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) will tell you how different you are (they won’t treat you like a war hero, but rather a loose cannon, because God forbid they leave you alone and not beg you to talk about your emotions).
As I undunderstand here isn’t any mention about automatic fire extinguisher, right?
「自動消火装置」
At one English there is said that Ki-61 Hei and others modifications had automatic fire extinguisher system for fuel tanks but now I am starting to think it was just imagination of foreign author because can’t see any proof for it especially in Japanese books. To be honest I don’t understand why army didn’t use extinguishers on their fighters but only on Ki-67. For example Navy used this systems on A6M5, J2M3, A7M, N1K and other planes.
Thank you for help.
P.S. don’t listen people here who didn’t do any reasearch or don’t have any interest in Japanese vehicles but make any statements based on emotions!
