WHAT! The La-9 ISN’T almost as fast, it’s 38kmh IAS slower. The Ki-83 also has a much better climb than the Lavochkin, if the La even tries to follow he’ll follow out of the sky.
La-9 is 80 kmh faster than the ki83 and has better dive acceleration, you will catch up a ki83 easily by putting the advantage in speed into following the climb. But you don’t need to climb after a ki83 either, just make it dive, you will ALWAYS have the chance to dodge and reverse.
This’ll lead to nowhere because we’re arguing based on anecdotal evidence.
This is not anecdotal, it’s empirical.
That thing that defyn says there, It is still applicable today. I use default belts as it’s the one with the old HEF.
Bro I swear on the Ki-83 that it’s faster than the Spits that aren’t the Mk22 & 24.
No, it’s definitely not. This is indeed anecdotal. Ki84 tops 610kmh IAS at 5km of altitude, it’s literally the same speed at which a spitfire lf mk9 will get to at such altitudes a little bit later, but not too late.
Below 4km it tops 550, that’s literally slower than most 4.0s.
The only time i’ve been killed by a ki83 was when I was AFK on an ME264 bomber and my auto turrets still managed to take it down with a single hit.
It’s a bad plane, and you’ve clearly gotten your stats from back in 2018 when it was axis vs allies and allies just had bombers and didn’t climb with their p47s or p51s.
Ki83’s flight performance (and armament efficiency) matches more 5.0 than anything higher, and even yet it will still struggle.
Had to deplete most of my ammo to kill 6 people. One of those 7 actually J’d out. I would have gotten a spark on them if they didn’t give up.
