Best Japanese B-29 'Killer'

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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...

 
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.
 
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
 
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".
 
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.
 
Ivan1GFP said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
Ivan1GFP said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
Ivan1GFP said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
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