These are even bigger differences than the case of J5N.īut even with well known planes like the Fw 190s, the first succesful prototype or first production variant were different from the final plans. There were even cases when the first flown planes fell apart in the air because construction faulires and the projects were abandoned. Misjudged performance was pretty common in WW2. You can argue how should we call these planes, but they are not differ from the planes existing on papers only at all. The Ki-88 might be partially built, but parctically it is a paper plane. Planes are a different breed, so a partially built model means exactly nothing regarding the performance and anything important. Will navy branches include projects that were never realized in metal, but existed only in blueprints, not to mention those that never got past the stocks?Ī: Yes, we’re not ruling that out, especially with regard to projects that were completely ready, but whose construction was never finished for one reason or another. That’s why everything is calculated in advance, and in truth, a ship is born long before it reaches the shipyard, it’s born in the final construction blueprints.

Q: Designing a ship (not a boat) is a very serious matter, it cannot be seriously redesigned if mistakes come up when it’s already been built. The fact of the matter is, planes that were built but never flew are added to War Thunder all the time, and if you would leave for such planes being added, you should have many times over, even recently. Obviously planned performance is never perfectly aligned with reality, but such a major difference as J5N was a rarity. This plane was just before final assembly when canceled. So playing some kind of 'what if' game with planes is nonsense. There is a reason why they needed so much test flight and evaluations, revisions and in some cases complete redesign. Paper and never tested planes are not like tanks and ships. Despite the other five prototypes also having flown with numerous enhancements, the aircraft never achieved its design speed, and the project was abandoned soon after in February 1945.'Īnd that's why we don't like planes that never flew.

J5N: ' The top speed attained was only 597 km/h (371 mph) – far below the specified 666 km/h (414 mph) of the requirement. compare the P-51H estimates and real numbers), that's a fact.

And estimates were way off in WW2 at every nation, even late war (e.g.

Thunder bomber paper airplane