and give it 4 12mm cannons wait we not saying stupid things
500 bomb = 226 kg
or give them a 1000 kg load and disable the guns and move it to br3
you can ask for heavy cannons and treat them like light cannons
Just put it in BR III or Give it 250 kg bomb in BR IV and it will be OK not great but Ok plane.
The J5N1 actually was going to be better option since it has 250 kg bomb not in war thunder but nothing can prevent them from giving it its bomb but the best option is in world of planes:
And they didnt needed ground attacker since they where losing the war at this time so all focus was on making interceptors but here you can actually win this battles so the Japanese production of planes would be different.
Well you cant make interceptor like this plane a ground attacker the devs should just put it in a fighter squadron. They can try make it ground attacker at BR III and see what happens but no matter how I look at it it should have been some premium fighter plane despite that I love this plane but lets see. Simply the plane is a fighter plane and it has no payload or capacity to be ground attacker.
Here I have put all the Japanese planes they can be put in this setup if the devs have the will to do it and Japan will have competitive air force:
I took it for a fly in warthunder last night. Nice looking bird. Was fun
I suppose its not the first interceptor/heavy fighter with attacker tag. But yeah, there are better “attacker” options for CAS. This is more just a bit of flavour (Im all for choices)
At least now japan has 2 slots for air supremacy instead of just the fighter slot
To be honest, if they change it to 250kg x 2
Instead, it should be changed from BR4 to BR5.
The plane performance is better than the P-47D-28, and the machine gun is 30mm x 2, which is extremely destructive to the plane and killing infantry. (Based on the HE belt)
Of course, this alone won’t destroy the tank, but so if they switch to 250kg x 2, it could be similar or even better than P-47D-28.
I’m in favor of this being changed to 250kg x 2 and to BR5.
One thing is for sure
Ki-83 is the only plane that can exist in BR5 except for jets.
I didn’t think it because 50kg x 2 was max before, but if they can change the bomb to something better, there’s no better plane than this.
Well the bomb size will really determent the BR of this plane if its with 100 kg bombs it hard to be BR III+ since its useless against ground targets (unless it was fighter plane). If it has 2x250 kg bombs it can be BR IV or BR V. But its not on the level of a Jet for sure since jets are better at everything and have bigger bombs so no plane in existence that is not a jet can exist in BR 5. Even in war thunder they are separated for a reason you are going from 6.0 to 7.0 + and this is important BR since its from propeller to jet BR.
P-47D-28 if it had a single 250 kg bomb would be BR III plane.
Well, the problem is that there’s not just bombs here.
The problem is that the plane itself has the best performance, and the 30mm x 2 is very powerful.
With this plane performance and this punch power, one advantage is that it is also effective against jets.
No matter how fast the jet is, it will be destroyed right away with just one 30mm hit.
Also, 30mm is the deadliest even for infantry, as mentioned above.
I’ve been killing at least 10 infantry at a one time with Me262 and Fw190 D-12, Bf 109 K-4 and Kikka’s 30mm.
I think the reason why this plane can’t go below BR3 is because it has top performance for an attacker plane, strong cannon, and 100Kg x 2 minimum bomb, so it can’t go down to BR3.
If this goes down to BR3, it will be more OP attacker than XA-38 to be honest.
Therefore, BR4 is appropriate, and honestly, I would like to change it to 250kg and change it to BR5.