Shortround6
Lieutenant General
going from the deter Japan in Mayala thread
I have watched about 2/3rds of the first video and while I agree with a lot of it, I do disagree with one part in which one commentator calls most of the British aircraft "garbage".
While the commentator does not call the Buffalo outright garbage he calls the Blenheim garbage, and the Hudson garbage and the Vildebeest garbage. In the last instance he may have been right
But this was a strange period in time for both Allied and Japanese aviation and Dec 1941/Jan 1942 is different than the summer/fall of 1942.
Japanese JAAF attacked Mayala and Philippines with about 650 aircraft with a large boost from the JNAF against the Philippines.
The types of aircraft used against Mayala were, for the most part, not sophisticated or high performing as we would think of later planes.
The principle Japanese bomber was the Ki-21 II A, but only around 120-130 were on strength in SEA.
Speedy if flying at full speed but cruise was closer to 380kph and bomb load was a max 1000kg. This qualified it as a "heavy" at the time and theater.
It was better protected than most Japanese aircraft but gun armament was.........................sketchy?...............inadequate.....................downright poor?
Six 7.7mm machine guns that had only 3 men to man them (unless extra gunners were carried) that were rather slow firing and had limited ammo capacity (and one was a tail stinger) meant that evasion was probably the best defense.
There were some Ki-48 Is involved but this were the early ones with the single speed superchargers and the 300kg bomb load and cruise speed of around 350kp, and three hand aimed 7.7mm machine guns. Calling the Blenheim garbage while this was 2nd best JAAF bomber in the theater might be pushing it?
JAAF was using the Ki-30
A Battle equivalent without retracting landing gear?
The rest of the "bombers" used were Ki-51s
max bomb load normal was four 50kg bombs Two 7.7mm guns for strafing.
They were using a few Ki-36s to fill up numbers.
with a 450hp engine the plane was useful for operating out of small airfield..............if there were no opposing fighters.
normal bomb load was ten 33lb bombs.
Japanese did not have superior planes to the British, the fixed gear Ki-27 Nate was over 66% of the available JAAF fighter force.
What they had was excellent, experienced pilots, backed up by excellent, experienced ground crew and good command.
Yes the greater numbers helped.
Hudsons would have been decent bombers in Mayala........................had they had experience crews and all their operational equipment.
I have watched about 2/3rds of the first video and while I agree with a lot of it, I do disagree with one part in which one commentator calls most of the British aircraft "garbage".
While the commentator does not call the Buffalo outright garbage he calls the Blenheim garbage, and the Hudson garbage and the Vildebeest garbage. In the last instance he may have been right
But this was a strange period in time for both Allied and Japanese aviation and Dec 1941/Jan 1942 is different than the summer/fall of 1942.
Japanese JAAF attacked Mayala and Philippines with about 650 aircraft with a large boost from the JNAF against the Philippines.
The types of aircraft used against Mayala were, for the most part, not sophisticated or high performing as we would think of later planes.
The principle Japanese bomber was the Ki-21 II A, but only around 120-130 were on strength in SEA.
Speedy if flying at full speed but cruise was closer to 380kph and bomb load was a max 1000kg. This qualified it as a "heavy" at the time and theater.
It was better protected than most Japanese aircraft but gun armament was.........................sketchy?...............inadequate.....................downright poor?
Six 7.7mm machine guns that had only 3 men to man them (unless extra gunners were carried) that were rather slow firing and had limited ammo capacity (and one was a tail stinger) meant that evasion was probably the best defense.
There were some Ki-48 Is involved but this were the early ones with the single speed superchargers and the 300kg bomb load and cruise speed of around 350kp, and three hand aimed 7.7mm machine guns. Calling the Blenheim garbage while this was 2nd best JAAF bomber in the theater might be pushing it?
JAAF was using the Ki-30
A Battle equivalent without retracting landing gear?
The rest of the "bombers" used were Ki-51s
max bomb load normal was four 50kg bombs Two 7.7mm guns for strafing.
They were using a few Ki-36s to fill up numbers.
with a 450hp engine the plane was useful for operating out of small airfield..............if there were no opposing fighters.
normal bomb load was ten 33lb bombs.
Japanese did not have superior planes to the British, the fixed gear Ki-27 Nate was over 66% of the available JAAF fighter force.
What they had was excellent, experienced pilots, backed up by excellent, experienced ground crew and good command.
Yes the greater numbers helped.
Hudsons would have been decent bombers in Mayala........................had they had experience crews and all their operational equipment.
