Weakness of japanese planes?

[MacaroniBurger]

I was told they are slow, but every time I come into contact with them, they manage to keep up with me in a straight line, even with my f4u 1d.

I wanna know how to beat them.

[Rei]

They're going to usually be slower than you like you said, so what you need to do is ensure you're engaging them when they don't see you, or you have teammates. You also might wanna have a lot of speed if you're by yourself, so climb up, and dive on them, and don't turn if you miss your shots, keep going, and keep up your speed. Japanese planes also have no armor, so they're very vulnerable to being hit and if they catch fire, the fire usually won't go out.

[NovasGoSuper]

Planes aren’t really armored they use light materials so the plane gets lift and having an armored plane with 500 lb and above will weigh the plane down to much and won’t be able to get any lift

[NovasGoSuper]

Some of the Japanese planes have really good turn time and may put turn u. Because u will lose ur speed on a turn fight so that give the Japanese pay an advantage over u

[Tankfriend]

It really depends on what aircraft you're up against. The naval fighters like the A6M Zero are a little slower but more agile, while the army aviation fighters like the Ki-43 Hayabusa and the Ki-61 Hien are quite fast.

[Themask]

One of the biggest weaknesses of the Japanese planes are their armament. Played with a Ki-61-II and a Zero for a bit this afternoon, and I can tell you it took me 700-900 bullets of 7,62 to take down an He 219.
Even with the Ki-61-II, that has 20mm cannons, it takes a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of bullets.
So usually, because of their weak structure and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ armements, you’ll win headons with them.
Exept if the plane you happen to be fighting has 30mm cannons. Those are really powerful.

[DapperSpino]

One 50 cal.
Lights up light a firecracker

[Jaes]

Japanese planes have slow Top Speeds, not necessarily slow combat speeds. This is a common misconception that gets a lot of people that aren't used to fighting Japanese aircraft in a world of hurt.

Because of the design of the Japanese aircraft, they have pretty decent acceleration rates (not better than Yaks below 3000m, but better than most US aircraft), which is what you observed happening. However, once you start pushing into the 550 km/h+ speed range, you're going to see where they start having trouble keeping up.

Most Japanese lines can't handle manuvers above 600 km/h (or even just break apart) so going into that speed range is going to be your crutch if you're in a bad spot.

[kamikazi21358]

Japanese aircraft are extremely good, but their weakness you need to exploit is the aircraft itself: the skin is made from glorious Nippon paper folded 1000 times was coated with rocket fuel and thermite to keep the folds from unfolding, so if you manage to sneeze on them too hard —- the biggest lie of WW2 was we dropped A-bombs on Japan: they were actually crashing A6Ms that got hit by a .50 cal Incendiary bullet.

[MacaroniBurger]

Ok. I am now using russian planes as all the American planes fly like heavy fighters with no air spawn. How do I beat the japanese planes with russian planes? Obviously I can't go too high as russian planes were designed for low alt combat.

[kamikazi21358]

Originally posted by MacaroniBurger:

Ok. I am now using russian planes as all the American planes fly like heavy fighters with no air spawn. How do I beat the japanese planes with russian planes? Obviously I can't go too high as russian planes were designed for low alt combat.

You don’t.


Run in the skies with your yaks, kick their a**es on the ground with your IS-3s.

[june the janker]

They used to be slow and made of paper, with terrible guns (that was historical, there was a tiny square panel on the wing strong enough to bear the weight of a person, there was a 2 hour lesson in how to enter the aircraft without damaging it, and they could hit the enemy 200 times with cannon fire and not finish it off), but now they are buffed beyond belief to ridiculous levels in the new update. They can also keep up with a Hellcat up to 800kph in a dive, which is an absolute joke. I used to get 3-4 kills/death in pacific maps for my Hellcat,
( historical: 19), and now its 0-1.

[kamikazi21358]

Though one thing you have to consider is Japanese aircraft can be diverse, the “slow and maneuverable” applies to A6Ms and stuff, but then there are J2s and stuff, weakness of Japanese planes doesn’t apply to all, it applies to different types of Japanese planes. They all can tend to follow trends like most are pretty maneuverable, most have low-lowish speeds, but that doesn’t apply to all.

[Rei]

Originally posted by kamikazi21358:

Though one thing you have to consider is Japanese aircraft can be diverse, the “slow and maneuverable” applies to A6Ms and stuff, but then there are J2s and stuff, weakness of Japanese planes doesn’t apply to all, it applies to different types of Japanese planes. They all can tend to follow trends like most are pretty maneuverable, most have low-lowish speeds, but that doesn’t apply to all.

True true. One of the things about the late war planes like the N1K and Ki-84s is that they're not only very maneuverable, but they have speed rivaling the P-51, as well as powerful cannon armaments. They're almost perfect.

[kamikazi21358]

Originally posted by Rootin Tootin Putin:

Originally posted by kamikazi21358:

Though one thing you have to consider is Japanese aircraft can be diverse, the “slow and maneuverable” applies to A6Ms and stuff, but then there are J2s and stuff, weakness of Japanese planes doesn’t apply to all, it applies to different types of Japanese planes. They all can tend to follow trends like most are pretty maneuverable, most have low-lowish speeds, but that doesn’t apply to all.

True true. One of the things about the late war planes like the N1K and Ki-84s is that they're not only very maneuverable, but they have speed rivaling the P-51, as well as powerful cannon armaments. They're almost perfect.

Well, discluding what I said earlier how they use rocket fuel to keep their paper folds together... but yeah, Japanese Air tree is extremely underrated.