hello
this is a pack of the classfiles nescessary to enable all the hidden Ki-44. just drop the plane_Ki-44 Hidden_Cutouts_DBW folder into #DBW and add the lines to the air.ini
All models have the same 3D and the same cockpit as it is now.
credit for the original idea to enable them goes to theMiSfiT !
* V2.0*http://www.gamefront.com/files/20686097/plane_Ki-44+Hidden_Cutouts_DBWv2.ziphttps://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m7wbv23jajoj99dair.ini
Ki-44-II-Otsu air.KI_44_IIOTSU 2 NOINFO ja01 DESERT
Ki-44-II-Hei air.KI_44_IIHEI 2 NOINFO ja01 DESERT
breakdown:
Ki-44-II-Otsu
2x12.7 mm (default) * see note below
additionally:
2xHo301 40mm (9rounds each)
2x60kg
droptanks + 2x40mm
Ki-44-II-Hei
4x12.7 mm (default)
2x60kg
droptanks
Otsu_late dropped to spare a classfile. it brings no additional stuff to the game as it is. The FM is the regular Otsu and the loadout is not historical.
* note:
Otsu was manufactured from s/n 1356 beginning in August 1943 (after ko). A lot of references imply that otsu had 40mm wing armament
as standard. It could be fitted as 'special equipment' to this version but the standard otsu configuration was cowling 12.7 weapons
only and no wing armament (same as Hayabusa).
Hei was manufactured from s/n 1750 beginning in April 1944 (this was the version with 4 x 12.7).
I don't know why early references confused the sequence but can only speculate a belief at that time that the 40mm was introduced as a
late-war anti-B-29 weapon rather than during the late summer of 1943. What is apparent from intelligence reports is that some otsu
(as manufactured) were retro-fitted with 12.7 wing armament, becoming effectively hei. There were a series of armament trials held
between otsu and hei manufacture that effectively decided the subsequent hei configuration.
qoute from Mr. Nick Millman