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Adolf Galland said:Actually there is a jet aircraft that the Japanese designed JUST 4 the Kamikaze use: the Kugisho Okha 22 -
Wingspan: 4.1 m (13 ft 6 in)
Length: 6.9 m (22 ft 7 in)
Height: 1.2 m (3 ft 9 in)
Weight: Empty, 545 kg (1,202 lb)
and it carried a 600kg warhead that is good 4 splitting Allied warships in half but they, like many other new models, had come out 2 late and saw very limited service.
Lightning Guy said:The Betty was arguably the most vulnerable bomber of the war since it carried so much fuel and so little armor. And the Baka's could avoid the fighters but still had to run a very impressive gauntlet of AA fire just to get near a US carrier. The effectiveness of the American defenses was the reason many kamikaze attacks were made against the out-lying DDs instead of capital ships.
wmaxt said:I have to go back to the F-4U4 as best, it still held it's own in the '58/'59 for the French. I also seem to remember a skirmish in the late '60s but I can't remember for sure - maybe LG has the info as a Coursair buff.
RG_Lunatic said:wmaxt said:I have to go back to the F-4U4 as best, it still held it's own in the '58/'59 for the French. I also seem to remember a skirmish in the late '60s but I can't remember for sure - maybe LG has the info as a Coursair buff.
The F4U-4 was the best, pretty much without competition.
BTW, it is F4U. Navy coding was very different than USAAF coding:
F4U-4 = F(Fighter) 4(4th type from this manufacturer) U(Vought) -4(version)
F6F-3 = F(fighter) 6(6th type from this manufacturer) F(Grumman) -3(version)
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Lunatic