I’ll preface this suggestion by saying, Id rather see the Ki-21-IIb, however the best Ki-21 model on hand I believe is the Ic from WT. (Ki-21 Hei in WT)
Ki-21-Ic
Production
designer was Mitsubishi
designed: 1936–1937
produced: 1937-1644
2064 were built in total (All combat variants)
General
Empty Weight was 6 tons
Gross Weight was 10-11 tons
Length was 16 m (52 ft 6 in)
Wingspan was 22.5 m (73 ft 10 in)
Height was 4.85 m (15 ft 11 in)
Crew of 5-7 (Gunner count could vary depending on how many guns you wanted manned at once)
Engine used was the Nakajima Ha-5-kai in a twin configuration.
Entered service in 1938 as a fast bomber designed to be unescorted.
Would see significant action in China to much success, though losses were non insignificant.
Would continue frontline use going into WW2, though they would be quickly relegated to second line use until the later Ki-21-II’s would enter service. The later variants would slowly be phased out of frontline use except in kamikaze roles by 1943.
They would continue service till the end of the war in various auxiliary uses such as transports, “gilders”, ASW, trainers, etc.
Would you like to see the Ki-21 added?
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Would you like to see the Ki-21 added at BR3
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No it should be higher
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In what way would you like to see the Ki-21-Ic added?
My line of logic was, if BR3 can now have 4x 500lb (aka 250kg) bombs, it seems logical to me that an aircraft with worse flight characteristics, worse weapons and worse survivability would be fit for BR3 as well.
Fair enough, this thing would just be a worse A-20G (same bombload, same basic concept), with way worse flight preformance and way way worse defensive armaments… It wouldn’t exactly be fair to have them be the same BR.
Also… I don’t think the XA-38 is BR III worthy, it should go up…
I’d still like to hear from the expert though, see what he thinks.
The devs does not copy and paste the warthunder bombs so if it receives three 250kg bombs it could be BR3 and XA-38 is BR4 in my opinion so the comparison is not worth it
Well its not only the payload to some planes you can give insane payload and they will be bad this is one of them no heavy machine guns no cannons really the only thing it has is the 4x250 kg bombs so its gonna be kind of OK for BR III but there is much better options. This one can be side option. The best options for BR III are Ki-102 Otsu and B7A2.
But its one of those planes that would kind of suck a little cos it has no weapons and poor defensive guns. (Remember japan vs ussr event, su 2 vs BN25?..was a really shitty matchup)
