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The Ki-43 "Hayabusa" was designed based on the Japanese experience in the skies over China. Therefore, they built it with very low wing loading for extreme maneuverability, but with poor survivability or firepower. However, the Ki-44 "Shouki" was designed at the same time, with completely different objectives in mind. It was designed based on the observations of Japanese military attaches in Europe regarding the nature of the European air war. The Shouki, then, had quite high wing loading, a truly impressive rate of climb, high speed, good offensive firepower, and good stability as a gun platform. It was designed for hit-and-run, dive-and-swoop tactics, not dogfighting. Now, the Ki-44 was meant to be a point defense interceptor, not a fighter. The point remains, though, that the plane showed that the Army High Command understood how to build airplanes for the kind of fighting that would soon be the norm.

Your challenge is to create a situation where the IJAAF requests all its new fighters--twin-engined, escort, everything--to be designed for this kind of fighting. How can this be acheived, and what sort of aircraft result?
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