Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules
The KI-44 did have a good RoC and it dove fairly well. As for speed, the KI-44 was about even with the P-40.
Also, the Nakajima was lightly armed: Two 12.7mm (cowl) and two 20mm cannon (wing) or four 12.7mm (two cowl, two wing) was not really impressive.
The KI-44 armed with the Ho-301 40mm cannon were useful against B-29s, when the cannon worked...
Kind of misses the point.So was the Bf 109 (in both ways) but P-40s shot down a lot of those.
I take it that P-40s shot down many Ki-43s?
Maybe I need to do a Ki-43 thread...
There were 64 Ki-43 aces. The highest scoring ace, MSgt. Satoshi Anabuki of the 50th Sentai had 39 kills. Ten others scored over 20
Agreed. I think the Ki43 is one of the really ,really underrated/ ignored aircraft of the war.Pretty good for two machine guns...