Best Japanese Army Aircraft

[Sagittario64]

dead tie for me between the ki-100 and the george. george has 4 x 20mm cannon standard, and can duel easily with the hellcat, the main us navy fighter. ki-100 was an easy solution for tons of radial engines and tons of ki-61s with no inlines to put in them, but it was pretty capable in good hands
on a sidenote, dont doubt the J2M. might have been troublesome with its complex engine in the jungles, but then again, which aircraft didnt have jungle problems?

 

[treyzx10r]

dead tie for me between the ki-100 and the george. george has 4 x 20mm cannon standard, and can duel easily with the hellcat, the main us navy fighter. ki-100 was an easy solution for tons of radial engines and tons of ki-61s with no inlines to put in them, but it was pretty capable in good hands
on a sidenote, dont doubt the J2M. might have been troublesome with its complex engine in the jungles, but then again, which aircraft didnt have jungle problems?

I have to agree tied up with these as well,reliability problems were a huge factor though. The jungle was a hard place to maintain complex equipment of any type

 

[davebender]

Not much of an issue by 1945. Most late production Japanese aircraft were operating from the home islands.

Meanwhile in a far away corner of China IJA ground crew place a bit more duct tape on Ki-27s and hope they will hold together for another sortie.

 

[Sagittario64]

Haha true. But i hear so little about the combat history of the J2M, so for me it's difficult to select the ki-100 because i know next to nothing about the career of the J2M, aside from maintenance and unit movements. did J2Ms ever combat p-51s frequently enough to get an idea for the decision?