Bobthehatchit -> RE: Why did japan never build hurricanes? (2/23/2005 7:29:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BossGnome yeah, i didnt mean the original hurricane, i meant the Hurricane II. And yes it is very good at taking damage, in WITP it has an armour value of 2. As for the hypothetical heavily armoured japanese planes getting decimated: I have no doubt that that would happen! However, if your pilot sucks, how can you expect him to use a maneuverable design welL? isnt it better to give him a slightly less maneuverable design but much more resistant to make him survive? But then again I understand why they neever built any heavy armour planes, if their engines werent powerful enough. Why was that by the way? why were japanese engineers not able to build engines as powerful as the allies? lack of materials? Lack of skilled engineers and machinist didn't help matters, allot of the more powerful engines produced buy the Japs were more complicated to build and less tolerant of poor quality construction and finishing, meaning they we not as power full or a reliable as the could have been. Think of it like porting and flowing a car engine, having it blue printed and tuned etc you can get a shed load more power out of an engine that is set up perfectly. Hurriane type air craft would have been a good idea, as it would have been easier to produce and repair with the resources and supplies available, shot the wings of a hurri up you need a bit of wood working skill some material and varnish then you're good to go, shoot a metal skinned wing up you need skilled metal workers and equipment to do a proper job, makes it harder to maintain such air craft at rough field/forward air fields.
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