Somewhere on a remote island near Guadalcanal, 1942. Photo By Captain Takahashi Honda

Kawasaki Ki 100-Mark2 is a dive bomber style fixed landing gear and with more powerful engine.

VR Cockpit

History:

The Kawasaki Ki-100 is a single-seat single-engine monoplane fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (IJAAS) during World War II. The Japanese Army designation was "Type 5 Fighter" Go-shiki sentouki, or abbreviated as Goshikisen. It was not assigned an Allied code name.

In early 1945, 275 Ki-100s were modified from Ki-61s as an emergency measure to accept a 14-cylinder Mitsubishi Ha-112-II radial engine in place of the original Kawasaki Ha-40 inverted V-12 inline engine, resulting in one of the best interceptors used by the Army during the war. It combined excellent power and maneuverability, and from the first operational missions in March 1945 until the end of the war, it performed better than most IJAAS fighters against both United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bombers and P-51 Mustang fighters, as well as U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat carrier fighters.

Armament

1x Type 39 - 1000 pounds bombs,

2x 250 lbs boms

4x machine guns (2 in the nouse, 2 on the wings)

Throttle less than 40% will deploy the airbrakes, Best use for landing and dive bombing.