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In War Thunder’s upcoming major update 1.71 “New E.R.A”, pilots will have the chance to try out the worthy successor to the legendary D3A carrier dive bomber. Welcome two versions of Japan’s best late-war naval dive bomber - the D4Y Suisei!
The D4Y series of aircraft were developed by the Japanese in the late 1930s as a replacement for the aging D3A naval dive bomber. Although the initial plan was to replace the legendary D3A with the Heinkel He-118, this option was quickly discarded once the German candidate proved itself unsuitable. Once Japanese engineers acquired license copies of the German DB601A engine, they started working on their own design, taking inspiration from the failed German design. The new aircraft, designated D4Y Suisei first took flight in December 1940 and subsequently entered serial production after successfully passing testing in 1942.
Once it entered service, the D4Y served the Imperial Japanese Navy faithfully until the war’s conclusion, being used in many different roles, from its intended dive bomber role all the way to a reconnaissance aircraft and even night fighter. Over 2,000 D4Ys, spanning across several modifications, were constructed between 1942-1945.
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The D4Y will be added to War Thunder in two modifications - The D4Y2 and D4Y3. The D4Y2 represents one of the early modifications, outfitted with a Japanese license-built version of the Daimler-Benz DB601A inline engine. However, as the crews and maintenance teams soon found out, this engine proved to be unreliable and difficult to service. Thus, later modifications, such as the D4Y3, were equipped with a tried and tested Mitsubishi radial engine, solving the reliability issues.
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Compared to its predecessor, the D3A, the D4Ys are able to carry slightly bigger payloads, offering their pilots a choice between various different bomb calibers as well as rockets, whilst still retaining the ability to deliver the payload with deadly precision. Once the bombs have been dropped, pilots can either choose to return to base, or continue putting pressure on the enemy by utilizing the two nose-mounted low caliber machine guns to perform strafing runs against lightly armoured vehicles.
Keep your eyes peeled for two new additions coming to the Japanese air forces research tree, along with others, in the next major update 1.71 “New E.R.A”! Stay tuned!
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Comments (79)
Now just need to buff Japanese bombs... Sure its realistic that most of their bombs had little filler and were designed for penetrating ships/bunkers/pillboxes, but the problem is the game doesn't model this. It's all about how much boom the bomb has to determine if you killed something. And frankly japan's bombs have terrible boom. Makes almost all of Japan's bombers vastly inferior to everyone else simply because their bombs are so much less effective.
I like to bomb and ruin enemies! Can't wait to get it!
Some CAS love for the japs <3
the sad part is that we probably wont get the patch this month
What makes you think that?
If anything it's very likely it comes this weekend/next week even the Dev server launcher has the new 1.71 splash screen and everything.
Yay
no torpedus tho?
It is a dive bomber after all. Similar to how SBD-3 doesn't have torpedo as well
The D4Y did not mount torpedoes. Its a dive bomber unlike several of its peers.
patch is next month confirmed.
Actually,it will most likely be released juat after the Lavchkin event,so something around 20th of September.
I wonder how good those little cute rockets in Ground RB.
Thank you Gaijin, Thank you!
I love the new art with the weapons laid out, keep it up!
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