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Japan and it's war lord class, along with competition for strategic resources, and who would control the forces?..Army Vs Navy...no real strategic vision, and brutal occupation of those they conquered....doomed, and has been said that Japan was 20 years too late with it's Imperialistic intentions. Of course, the Emperor was let off the hook for his war crimes, as a compromise to keep domestic peace. Thanks. PS: The F-6F apparently WAS NOT a reaction to the 1942 finding of a Zero in the Aleutian Islands, as myth suggests, but a logical successor to the F4-F Wildcat. Thanks for the memories.

Just look what Hitler did in late 1919. He was a communist sympathiser. There are actually a pictures of him at funeral of leader of Bayern commies (a Jew!)...

The B-29's target is civilians, while the target of the human missile is a warship. Did you know that there are more crew members of downed B-29s than deaths in kamikaze?

Actually in a turning fight, angling the guns upward while pointing forwards would be an advantage, as the Defiant wouldn't have to pull a lead for a deflection shot if it was on the adversary's tail. This was a tactic used by two seaters like the Bristol Fighter in WW1 - the observer would fire over the pilot's head. I recall someone making a video about this a while back. On the other hand, being attacked from below and in front would be a problem.

I was sure the Blackburn Roc would figure in this, somewhere.. 😁

I think B and V were secretly working for the Allies. They came up with all these crazy designs to muck up the Nazi aviation industry.

Just imagine being the pilot of a Triebflugel and have to bail out with a three giant blades behind you.

The Japanese La-5 (FN). Funny, Wright went from radial to inline, while everybody else went the other way. Many thanx 👍👍

Excellent report. Thank you for sharing.

Truly AWFUL narration.

bro...ima be tryn to escape the terror of oblivion by watching a vid on the A7M and this motherf....nice start😂👍

Those bits from the wing to the cockpit are the only way to attach the cockpit to the fuselage, how else can you do it with a spinning propeller in the way, there is no way to attach the cockpit with a totally spinning device behind you 🤔

The Clostermann 'encounter' was not 'confirmed' There's no evidence that it happened. No report was made by Clostermann and no reports made by the supposed two pilots who chased it.

i dont get why they werent given even a single forward firing 7.7... even the swordfish and blenheim had some

7:14 Just looking at the tail in the fully down position I think I foresee an airflow problem, when turning left or right the rudder looks like it would also force the airflow upwards as well which would pitch the aircraft nose upwards, only in the middle position does it appear neutral, in the fully up position it wouldn’t make much of a difference because you are taxiing and the aircraft might be controlled by the tail wheel, also the angle of the aircraft when on all three wheels looks like it might cancel out much of the angle of the rudder.

The end commentary of "do Imperial Japan have a UA-cam channel?" Is just the humor touch needed. Great!

Uh veryu dishonorabru..

You're too "sing-songy". You sound like you're talking to kindergarteners. =PC=

Really enjoyed the video, much useful information but there are a couple of points I'd like to raise. The Lightning in RAAF (Australian) service. They only ever used 3, that's right, 3, for photo reconnaissance. Now we get to the Lightning in RAF (British) service. The Brits (or pommies, as we call them here) were the ones who actually gave the aircraft the name Lightning, because they gave all their aircraft names, such as Demon, Hurricane, Typhoon, Fury, Tempest etc (anyway you already know this). But the reason the poms returned (yes, returned) their Lightnings and the reason there was a problem with sending them to Britain in the first place was not having to meet the demands of the USAAF. It was all about copyright fears, not for the aircraft itself but the turbochargers fitted. As you know, forced induction had been used in race cars during the 1930s, by Britain (Bentley) Germany (Mercedes Benz) and Italy (Maserati). These engines were supercharged, ie the equipment to provide the forced induction was driven by the engine. This system made its way into the various aircraft, Bf 109, Spitfire, Hurricane etc. Turbocharging is driven by the exhaust gases and is a system originating in the USA. The govt of the day was VERY protective (understandably) of this new system. To that end the only way the RAF would get Lightnings was if they were delivered minus the turbochargers. This made the Lightning, robbed of the ability to perform at higher altitudes, worse than useless. The RAF hated them (for that reason) and returned them. Similarly, when Australia designed its own fighter, the CA 12 and CA 13 Boomerang the only engine available was the Pratt and Whitney twin row wasp as fitted to Beaufort bombers being built in Australia at that time. It also could not perform at altitude. The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation acquired a GE turbocharger which they fitted to a CA 13 and gave it the model number CA 14 and CA 14A (the 14A had a squared off tail). The fitting of this device gave the aircraft performance similar to a Mk 5 Spitfire. An application was made to the USA for a manufacturing license for this turbocharger. This application was refused and the US govt insisted that the GE turbocharger be returned. My source for for the Lightning info was a book by Kookaburra Publications (Australian, out of print) on the complete history of the Lightning, showing all variations and its creation and development. The Boomerang info comes from a book I once had but can't exactly remember the title. It was 50 years ago anyway. You might do a video on the Boomerang?

MORTAL KOMBAT! I did well with Sonya Blade 😍but my favorite was Raiden. Something about being a Japanese THOR appealed to me. 🤙

hey man, cool logo

Fu-cki-foff is the most hilarious pronunciation of Fockewulf I've ever heard 😂😂😂😂

0:46 this is exactly what I am going through rn. Feel like just tying the noose around me neck.

The design philosophy is for what would called a “Point Defense” fighter. A duration of just 1 hour was all that was required. You could consider that the early BF 109’s and even early Hurricanes and Spitfires fit into this category. The Me-163 is an extreme example of a point defense fighter.

Interesting that you mention Raiden in reference to video games twice, but didn't note that the main character from MGS2 is explicitly mentioned in-game as being named after the aircraft. I guess if you know, you know, but it might not come up in research when you're not familiar with the franchise. Also, as others have noted, the correct pronunciation is ~'rye-den'. Japanese phonology is actually really simple and consistent; it sounds like what it looks like (in romaji), and seeing as you'll likely be discussing a lot of Japanese topics, it'd be well worth the ten or fifteen minutes to familiarise yourself with how to pronounce it. Great video as always, I'm really not trying to be pissy, just hoping to help.

I had to snort when the one guy mentioned going from a 200hp engine to 2000hp. That would have been a serious upgrade!

P 51 , P 47, P 38. Nuff said.

The big difference between US and Japanese, German pilots, was the US removed Top aces from active duty to train new pilots. While Axis powers kept their Aces in combat roles, eventually losing them to combat fatalities. Running out of qualified pilots.

Jeremy "The Feck Wit Bully" Clarkson: IMMEDIATE TURNOFF.

A plane can’t save you if you have no fuel or trained pilots - and the enemy has the, you know, the atomic bomb.

Japan was never beating White America. Even they knew it going in.

When your design staff's best perk is access to a free all-you-csn-drink schnapps bar.

If something went wrong ,how would you parachute out of this? That was probably what the first pilot would have said.

15:15 I don't know if this is a photo of a prototype because if you look closely the port side Oleo strut or it's hinge is already bent forward. Or is the starboard oleo bent back?🤔Either way it obviously had weak landing gear!

Somehow twin-blade propellers looks odd on a late 30's design.

Inline engines needs cooling system. For high performance it has to be designed, built and then serviced with great care and precision. Japanese lacked all of that. That would affect reliability of whole plane. Guess choice of simplier radial solution was smart way to go.

Getmany should have had a contract with Elmer glue company.

Personally, think the Defiant got a bad rap because of two issues: 1) the plane really needed a much more powerful engine (fitted with a Merlin 61 engine of 1,600 bhp and a four-bladed propeller, it could have flown at speeds as high as 370 mph) and 2) the plane should have been fitted with a turret armed with two 20 mm Hispano cannon instead of the four 0.303 machine guns. With these modifications, it would have been a major scourge against _Luftwaffe_ bombers, especially with the longer range of the Hispano cannons.

Can it build itself? Fly itself? Make its own fuel? If couldnt do these things it is not going to "save" anything.

"Couldn't find info about combat over the Philippines." As it happened, Tommy McGuire was looking to increase his score, 38 kills, second highest scoring AAF ace, over the Philippines and ran into a Japanese ace flying a Raiden. Unfortunately, he got the jump on McGuire's wingman. Ironically at low altitude, McGuire tried a tight turn to save his wingman, with drop tanks still attached, something he always taught less experienced P-38 pilots to never do, and he got into a high speed stall and died in the resulting crash. The Raiden driver got his wingman cold. A bad day for the USAAF P-38 community...

Without a doubt...you should get rid of whoever the guy that is talking on this video...WOW...I wanted to watch this video but can't stand his voice.

Someone should do and r/c model to see how it would really fly and perform.

That 2nd one looked a bit like the A10 Warthog's predecessor to me, pretty cool looking stuff, they could've been on the right track.

"Rejection is a natural part of life" is the most loser thing, I've ever heard. But with that mindset, it's no surprise one might get rejected easily. Sorry, but I suggest, to speak for yourself. There are some that reject and some that get rejected. Chose yourself which one, you want to be ;D

A6m = TIE Fighter J2M = TIE Defender

notice the A-10-like forward fuselage looks of P193.

They were popular in Russia but never enough of them

Well it was too said that the Ki-84 Hayate , Shiden-Kai N1K were equally formidable and "could have saved Japan too " if produced in quantity / or developed earlier.. *If ....

A lot of experimental planes performed good on paper with high speed, rate of climb, armament and could have been put in production years before and people hearing that say Why didnt they put that plane in production? That was stupid not to do that. But most all of them had some type of design flaws that seem minor to us, where we think so what ,but to the pilots or ground crews that had to use those planes in actual combat those flaws are deal killers , like maybe the new plane has poor handling characteristics at low or high level altitude or vibrates violently in a dive , maybe the engines had a stalling problem when accelerated or over heated and seized up or the new plane was dangerous and difficult to land and had a high pilot loss from that, Sometimes it takes years for the designers to figure out what causes those problems other times they cant and just abandon the project and move on to another design that is having less problems

Allies had broken Japanese encryption codes, and were sinking their tankers like hotcakes with their low grade oil. Japanese required the reporting of where their ships were every 24 hours, thank you very much! Subs were waiting. No fuel? Hard to fight a war.