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- Title
THE FASCINATING MITSUBISHI ZERO, THE UNPARALLELED CARRIER-BASED FIGHTER AIRCRAFT, FROM DOGFIGHTER1 TO KAMIKAZE (I).
- Authors
SALCĂ, Horia
- Abstract
It is often said that World War II was won in laboratories and factories, through innovation and military production and not on the battlefield, through human sacrifice1. Indeed, the original technical solutions and the application of the latest results of scientific research in military technology brought spectacular results at various times of the war and ensured its end, when the Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Captain Paul W. Tibbets Jr launched on August 6. 1945 the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and three days later, the second bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. A scientific war-winner is a science based weapon which, for a period and in certain circumstances, occasionally in isolation but more usually in combination with other weapons, can turn the tide of a battle, a campaign, or possibly even of a war2. In the interwar period, preparing for war, the Japanese adopted the best technical solutions, in terms of quality, aware that they could not exceed British and American industrial production, primarily due to lack of resources. In fact, the lack of resources was the main stake of the war for the Japanese. This paper aims to bring to attention the story of one of the most important fighters in the history of World War II: Mitsubishi A6M, known especially as the Mitsubishi Zero. I thank my friend Andrew Tyrell, an aviation engineer in Lincoln, for his remarks, especially for comments to the paragraph 'Some of Horikoshi's innovations for the Zero fighter' which he didn't think being accurate.
- Subjects
MITSUBISHI airplanes; FIGHTER planes; DOGFIGHTERS Inc.; KAMIKAZE airplanes; WORLD War II
- Publication
Buletinul AGIR, 2022, Vol 27, Issue 2, p32
- ISSN
1224-7928
- Publication type
Article