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With G4M and G3M range the Germans would be able to attack any target in the British isles,that would hamper British war production quite a bit and cause chaos amongst civilian in the countryside.
By that time A6M with 20mm cannon would already be introduced and how can PZL 11 stand up to Japanese monoplane, Ki-27 is also superior in performance to the most numerous French fighter(M.S.406).
Type 93 (Destroyer/cruiser torp nicknamed LongLance by usa) In service 1933–1945However does anyone know if the Japanese aerial torpedoes of 1939/40 were just as good as the torpedoes of Dec 1941/42???
The A6M2 went into service in July 1940 with the 12th Rengo Kokutai in China.
Yeah, those same aircraft (13 out of 15) saw combat within several weeks, too.Yeah, on 21 July 1940 with preproduction aircraft, post trials.
If we stick to air forces rather than naval aircraft I'd say the Japanese will be pleased to get German aircraft. Yes, the attack from Formosa on the Philippines may not have single engine fighter escort, but it wasn't needed anyway, as that tool MacArthur left all his aircraft lined up on the airfields for quick, mostly unopposed destruction.No Pearl Harbor, for one (no German carrier aircraft). No fighters staging from the Formosa to attack the Philippines (German fighters had less range).
The Pearl Harbor torpedo (type 91) was active since 1931.
Yeah, those same aircraft (13 out of 15) saw combat within several weeks, too.
In the inverse, can we make this argument for the P-38? The Lightning prevailed in the PTO, but IDK about the ETO.Similarly, some aircraft that were successful in the ETO struggled in the Pacific.
There's nothing worth hitting beyond Coventry and the midlands. A couple of bombers hitting a sheep farm in Yorkshire isn't going to win the war. Creating chaos amongst the countryside people? Have you met a farmer, there is no chaos, our Yorkshire farmer will be pointing his blunderbuss skyward. Though I feel badly for our Polish friend here.With G4M and G3M range the Germans would be able to attack any target in the British isles,that would hamper British war production quite a bit and cause chaos amongst civilian in the countryside.
That's an issue of pilot experience, training, doctrine. If we look at IJAF fighters, there are very few instances of any combat against the Hurricane or Spitfire. The former, hurriedly sent to Singapore and DEI without training or any organization, just as these territories were falling fared expectedly poorly.If Hurricanes and Spitfires were so much better than Japanese fighters why didn't they "sweep them from the sky"
It's a funny thing on this forum, but there are several different core groups that hold onto similar beliefs about British, German and American fighters, too. Nobody's completely bias-free.It's a funny thing on this forum, there's a core group that hold onto a belief that Japanese fighters were superior to all comers.
Well yes, but that's their one trick. They have a dangerous imbalance of firepower, agility and protection that guaranteed their obsolescence by the end of 1943, less than two years after the Oscar enters service. ANY opponent after the removal of rubbish like the Buffalo that avoids a turning fight with the A6M or Ki-43 has very good odds of either flaming the matchstick Japanese or fleeing the scene.ANY opponent of an A6M or KI-43 that got into a turning fight ran the risk of unfortunate consequences.
British fighters of 1941 would sweep Japanese fighters from the sky and yet we have a quote here that "most of squadron 81 Spitfire Mark VIII are unserviceable due to rippled skin and warped engine bearings" from facing those crappy old obsolete 2 gun KI43 Oscars. If Hurricanes and Spitfires were so much better than Japanese fighters why didn't they "sweep them from the sky" where they faced them in China Burma and India? The guy in the above quote certainly doesn't agree with British fighter superiority, or was the Mark I Hurricane and Mark I Spitfire superior to the Mark VIII Spitfire?