Best Japanese B-29 'Killer'

[Washing Machine Charlie]

While driving home, eating my Taco Bell, and thinking airplanes, the though occurred to me, did any changes to perhaps cams(?) or any other part of the mechanical computer controlling the B-29 guns need to be made, once, MiG-15s became targets?

It seems such a radical performance difference, from Japanese interceptors would challenge the system...

"According to Far East Air Force Bomber Command records, Superfort crewmen were credited with shooting down 33 enemy fighters, 16 of them MiGs. Another 17 MiGs were listed as probably destroyed, with 11 damaged."

https://www.historynet.com/superforts-vs-migs.htm

 

[The Basket]

The Ki-46 was said to have a upwards firing cannon 37mm so that's the ticket.
In a war of attrition, trading 1v1 maybe better than nothing but ramming is desperate when you've ran out of ideas.

Its not a common practice when you're winning.

 

[BiffF15]

Ramming "may" be a viable tactic if you can out produce your adversary (both pilots and planes). Just not the case in the war against Japan.

Cheers,
Biff

 

[Shinpachi]

2,000sets of Type5 30mm cannon were provided in the navy but so many airframes were not in time by the end of war.

Source: Photos & Videos tagged with #30mm機銃搭載した彩雲 on Instagram - Pintaram

 

[The Basket]

That looks like Nakajima B6N 'Jill' but don't think it is
So much confusion.

 

[CORSNING]

That looks like Nakajima B6N 'Jill' but don't think it is
So much confusion.

It is definitely a Nakajima B6N Heavenly Mountain (Jill).

 

[Dimlee]

Reality has shown Russia killed many more folks than the Nazis but who gets painted the most with the hate brush?

Not "Russia" but the Soviet Union (USSR). Sorry, just stating the obvious...

 

[Juha3]

It is Nakajima C6N Myrt, more exactly C6N1-S

Juha3
ex-Juha
ex-Juha2

 

[Shinpachi]

The caption says "Nakajima C6N1 Myrt, night fighter version with 30mm cannon flown by Lt. Hiroshi Yasuda and Lt. Taro Fukuda of the 302-ku of 3rd Air Corps at Atsugi Base in August, 1945".

 

[The Basket]

Yeah. I is knowing but not knowing enough.

It looked like the B6N but I knews it wasn't.

So close but no cigar.

 

[Shinpachi]

I didn't mind whichever as they are like twins

 

[CORSNING]

C6N it is, I stand corrected.......again.

Someday I am going to have to put the thousands of hours study
I have in WW2 fighters and gear that focus on the bombers.

 

[Shinpachi]

This is a good chance to compare.
C6N is a little longer than B6N by 0.285 meters (11.22") .

Nakajima B6N1 Jill
Source: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/df/f0/8fdff062aff513b17791881c0afd3acc.jpg

 

[Macandy]

The B 29 was clearly not used as intended, and could easily have been replaced by B-17s and the B-24s for the extermination of Japanese civilians.

Except the B-17/B-24 carried much smaller bomb loads over much shorter distances. B-24's didn't start attacking the home Islands from Pacific bases until July 1945 from Ie Shima off Okinawa.

 

[Conslaw]

We would have not needed the B-29 if we would have built giant aircraft carriers - with bomber-sized runways, built them out of ice like giant iceburgs - unsinkable. Crazy? It was seriously considered. Project Habakkuk - Wikipedia

 

[The Basket]

If I remember the ice carriers they were a mixture of wood pulp and ice.
For the North Atlantic.
Not the warmer waters of the Pacific.

 

[Ivan1GFP]

They would have carried their own refrigeration equipment, but one has to wonder about the laws of thermodynamics.
If they are resistant to melting, then they are also quite resistant to freezing to begin with.

 

[Conslaw]

They would have carried their own refrigeration equipment, but one has to wonder about the laws of thermodynamics.
If they are resistant to melting, then they are also quite resistant to freezing to begin with.

It is true that if they are resistant to melting then they are quite resistant to freezing to begin with.

My daughter did a science fair project on Pykrete - the wood-pulp and ice mixture planned for the aircraft carrier. In theory Pykrete melts slower than pure-water ice. In my daughter's experiments that was somewhat true, but there is an in-between stage where the Pykrete somewhat retains its shape, but is very weakened.

The ice-aircraft-carrier didn't get off the ground because before it was even really evaluated, the Allies were well on their way to building hundreds of escort carriers and numerous Independence and Essex-class fleet carriers. By early 1944, the B-29 offensive was getting ready in China, and plans were being made for conquest of the Marianas for B-29 bases there.

The hypothesis behind my daughter's project was that maybe Pykrete could be used to create artificial icebergs to provide sea-ice habitat for polar bears in a world deprived of sea ice by climate change.

 

[Conslaw]

They would have carried their own refrigeration equipment, but one has to wonder about the laws of thermodynamics.
If they are resistant to melting, then they are also quite resistant to freezing to begin with.

It is true that if they are resistant to melting then they are quite resistant to freezing to begin with.

My daughter did a science fair project on Pykrete - the wood-pulp and ice mixture planned for the aircraft carrier. In theory Pykrete melts slower than pure-water ice. In my daughter's experiments that was somewhat true, but there is an in-between stage where the Pykrete somewhat retains its shape, but is very weakened.

The ice-aircraft-carrier didn't get off the ground because before it was even really evaluated, the Allies were well on their way to building hundreds of escort carriers and numerous Independence and Essex-class fleet carriers. By early 1944, the B-29 offensive was getting ready in China, and plans were being made for conquest of the Marianas for B-29 bases there.

The hypothesis behind my daughter's project was that maybe Pykrete could be used to create artificial icebergs to provide sea-ice habitat for polar bears in a world deprived of sea ice by climate change.

 

[Conslaw]

They would have carried their own refrigeration equipment, but one has to wonder about the laws of thermodynamics.
If they are resistant to melting, then they are also quite resistant to freezing to begin with.

It is true that if they are resistant to melting then they are quite resistant to freezing to begin with.

My daughter did a science fair project on Pykrete - the wood-pulp and ice mixture planned for the aircraft carrier. In theory Pykrete melts slower than pure-water ice. In my daughter's experiments that was somewhat true, but there is an in-between stage where the Pykrete somewhat retains its shape, but is very weakened.

The ice-aircraft-carrier didn't get off the ground because before it was even really evaluated, the Allies were well on their way to building hundreds of escort carriers and numerous Independence and Essex-class fleet carriers. By early 1944, the B-29 offensive was getting ready in China, and plans were being made for conquest of the Marianas for B-29 bases there.

The hypothesis behind my daughter's project was that maybe Pykrete could be used to create artificial icebergs to provide sea-ice habitat for polar bears in a world deprived of sea ice by climate change.