Talk:Type 3 Fighter Hien (244th Air Combat Group)/@comment-112.208.150.123-20160503012907/@comment-175.156.142.21-20160601071105

@funicode but most of the high-tier aircraft never had arrestor hooks. Real life Shiden kai 2, Reppuu, Nanzan, Shinden kai, Fw190, etc all never had arrestor hooks, because they never needed them, as they never took off from carriers. By the time they came into production, IJN had already lost most of its carriers. From the perspective of the devs, for non-jet planes, "converting" them for carrier use is as simple as slapping on an arrestor hook, which is what the devs have already done. Heck, most of these planes would never take off or land on the smaller surviving carriers, e.g. houshou. What we are dealing with is only loosely bound by historical limitations.