Talk:Ginga/@comment-108.88.197.98-20160814103322/@comment-50.43.34.253-20160826075652

You have to remember that cranking out a top of the line bomber is (usually) not something you do in 6 months. Or even a year. The Ginga began development way back in 1940 and didn't take its first flight until August of '43. The situation in 1940 was incredibly different from mid '43...and yet again even more different by the time it had its combat debut in '44. By the time things were turning really ugly (mid '43) there was no real time to develop an entirely new bomber. They had to make do with what they had on hand.