I finally get it now. The numbers for airframe production I put in manually (in the first few columns). The result is the surplus or deficit in the ENGINE POOL, not the number of aircraft I plan to make.

Kull,

Thanks for your help. And your patience. I will try what you suggested.

It is unfortunate there is no consolidated and simplified explanation of how to deal with the Japanese production. It seems to require weeks of research to figure it out.

How did your restart with changes to your aircraft production and R&D go? Any lessons learned you care to share with us?

<t> Does the spreadsheet available for download still work? I downloaded, enabled content, then changed some of the factory damage levels (to show increasing production in the future). Nothing seemed to change in the produced values. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but would really like to use ...