The J7W Shinden (Awesome looking WW2 Jap plane that didn't see combat)

[starcrapoo]

What do you guys think? For its era, its pretty futuristic and aerodynamic looking with the swept wings. Its climb rate was very good and service ceiling very high at 39,000ft. It was gonna be fitted with four 30mm cannons and 2 light machine guns. It had a friggin 2000hp engine which was pretty insane for a relatively light WW2 fighter plane.

If the Japs had more time and resources, they would have perfected this plane and many are saying it would have been the best fighter of WW2 (exluding the ME262 of course)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UTv70mEhOo

 

[BlackPilledOverdose]

Looks good.

 

[WizardofSoda]

One of the things I find interesting about Japan is they saw how well the British, US and German economies were advancing way back and in the 1880s the Emperor of Japan implemented reforms in Japan based mainly on the German model. The USA was trading a lot and involved with Japan at that point as well.

This was radical by the Japanese to be carrying out what were dramatic changes to the organization and culture of the country way back then. Most countries still haven't been able to make those changes, or if they did it was because the USA & co. took them over then did the reforms.

With all this power they began to build, they then were building the Japanese Empire which was gigantic by the time WWII came. And in places like Korea, Taiwan, Northeastern China, the Japanese were carrying out the same reforms in those countries after Japan took over.


To design and build a plane like that we are talking serious organization. You need large funding from the government, then a lead corporation managing it, and then a ton of expertise in that corporation, and a lot of subcontractors who know how to engineer and manufacture components. Then the whole metallurgy and chemistry for the materials.

 

[Defetivecuckachu]

Came up against the same problem as the Germans faced. What is the use of having high tech designs, if you have no more materials or factories to build them, no more fuel to put in the tank, and no more men to fly them?

Japan simply couldn't replace their losses against a massive enemy like the USA.

They were counting on rapid gains at pearl harbor and afterwards to shock US in to accepting their terms, out of a lack of appetite for war. They gambled and lost.