*Fighter crews of the Kamchatka Front would've had their work cut out for 'em!* The Lavochkin-7 packed dual 20mm Pulemjot Shpitalnogo-Vladimirova, which could make shreds of anything Japan could throw at Soviet air; but, notwithstanding the inferior punch of the Ho-103 synchrogun's 12.7x81SR Breda-SAFAT cartridge, the IJAAF/Nakajima Type 84 was double-superior, with 1,550 kW from the Nakajima Ha-45-21 (vs. 1,225 kW from the La-7's Arkadij Shvetsov-82FN) and 10% lower wing loading.
The Ki 84 and the n1k2 and the Ki 100 were high altitude fighters which could challenge the mustangs and the thunderbolts unlike the yaks and lavochkins which were designed for low and medium altitudes.
MANCHURIA=滿洲 THIS PLACE WAS CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE FROM 1931 TO 1945. THE JAPANESE RENAMED IT IS CALLED 滿洲國. IT MEANS MANCHURIA-STATE. NOWADAYS, IT IS CALLED THE NORTH-EAST OF CHINA (中國東北)
