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Originally Posted by CDM
The Pacific is a much bigger ocean, Japanese radar was never that good, their airborne ASW was never that good and with fuel and airplane shortages got worse instead of better as the war went on. The "realism" of the constant harassment by aircraft in SH4 is on the wrong side and in the wrong theater.
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Japanese aircraft production was 75,000+. Losses at the end of the war were approximately 43,000. Sure, it doesn't scratch the benchmark of the U.S.'s 300k but 75,000 is still one heck of a lot of wings.
Here are the numbers by year:
39 4.4k
40 7.8k
41 5.0k
42 9.0k
43 16.0k
44 28.0k
45 8.0k