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[Messcaster]

Excellent!

[farang65]

really nice definitely very much looking forward to this aircraft 

love Japanese planes   

Cheers Kirby

[walter_solito]

You can quite scold me for the capital but this new mod 'll be....

...FANTASTIC!!!!!!

All the best!

walter

[Docholiday]

Just WOW   !!! 


Doc

[AG-51_Razor]

Beautiful work!! Will it have folding wings? I have been looking for information on the Judy and cannot find any reference to, or pictures of the Judy with it's wings folded. Maybe it did not have that ability?

[ten010]

Beautiful work!! Will it have folding wings? I have been looking for information on the Judy and cannot find any reference to, or pictures of the Judy with it's wings folded. Maybe it did not have that ability?

JUDY was 11.5m the wingspread and following the limitation of the size of the elevator of the aircraft carrier. Therefore, there was no folding wings.
I'm sorry by poor English. 

[AG-51_Razor]

Your English is fine. I understand completely. Thank you. 

[Bombnick]

This type of aircraft was also used as a nightfighter, a unique role for a type that was conceived as a single engined dive bomber - which only proves excellent performance of the craft.

Some existing D4Y-2s were modified into single seaters, with gunner cockpit now being occupied with a single (twin in some planes, according to some sources) 20 mm Type-99-II cannon, being aimed at an angle of 30° towards horizon. Due to lack of radar, their night time efficiency remains questionable. According to japanese sources, best D4Y-2S pilot was Yoshimitsu Naka, who downed 5 B-29s and damaged 4 more.


(picture linked from www.airwar.ru)

[Barkhorn1x]

The most missing IJN plane!

Really looking farward to it

All the best!

walter

My thoughts exactly.  I need this plane!!

[RealDarko]

night time efficiency remains questionable. According to japanese sources, best D4Y-2S pilot was Yoshimitsu Naka, who downed 5 B-29s and damaged 4 more.

Even with a high performance fighter that sounds like a epic achievement, now imagine with a dive bomber!

[jeanba]

night time efficiency remains questionable. According to japanese sources, best D4Y-2S pilot was Yoshimitsu Naka, who downed 5 B-29s and damaged 4 more.

Even with a high performance fighter that sounds like a epic achievement, now imagine with a dive bomber!

Well, japanese claims are known to be very unreliable, and were not checked with great care by japanese intelligence.
Indeed, this is the source of a lot of mistake made by them during wwII

[SAS~Le0ne]

night time efficiency remains questionable. According to japanese sources, best D4Y-2S pilot was Yoshimitsu Naka, who downed 5 B-29s and damaged 4 more.

Even with a high performance fighter that sounds like a epic achievement, now imagine with a dive bomber!

I do  not know of the japanese pilots but test pilots in RAF tryed out several updates of the Beufighter, and turned them down as an nightfighter because of too much speed and powerful engines. The pilot interviewed on flypast about this said that it is a good thing to be able to climb fast but if the plane itself was heavy and powerful it was just too easy to overshoot theyre targets. Maby it is so that in nightfighter role a easy stable gunplatform is a better suited nightfighter than a nimble fighter.
A fleet air arm pilot who flew Seafire late at war and later the hellcat and corsair said that the seafire had a much better climbrate and performance, but was just to light and nimble to be a good gunplatform.