Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The surprise attack of on Pearl Harbor . The Grumman F6F Hellcat and Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen were the two principal opposing fighters in the brutal aerial clashes of the Pacific War from 1943 onwards. Of these, 5,163 were scored by US Navy and US Marine Corps pilots against a loss of 270 Hellcats.
F6F Hellcat vs A6M Zero-sen: Pacific Theater 1943–44 (Duel, Band 62) | Young, Edward M., Laurier, Jim, Hector, Gareth | ISBN: 9781782008132 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Hellcat F6F Good at Altitudes.
Like the Zero, the Wildcat was progressively modified as the war continued.
The F6F-5 and F4U-4 would seem to be a fair comparison, except that the F6F's development has essentially been halted, and the F4U-4 benefited from continued development in that time. F6F “Hellcat” VS Japanese “Zero” and the U.S. Navy pilot’s instructions for winning in DOG FIGHTs.
I am in the middle of putting some information together for the P-51 Mustang vs F6F Hellcat thread so I may not do this thread justice tonight. 0. You can't shoot what you can't see. The Hellcat’s strength, literally, was its simple and straightforward design.
The power beneath the hood of a Hellcat came from a Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine. F6F “Hellcat” VS Japanese “Zero”…Navy pilot’s instructions for winning in DOG FIGHTs (17 Photos) By: Rick. The only thing that the Hellcat lacked compared to the Zero was the armament.
fuel, guns, and ammunition, All-up weight … Jason Somes and Ken Gotshall are pilots with the Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. 39 Disliked 0. Still, if an experienced piolot were in the cockpit of the Zero, it was dangerous to ANY opponent right up to the war's end.
ALTERNATIVE (F6F-5N): 2 x 20mm automatic cannons. Best Fighter of WWII - F6F Hellcat, by B-24WillowRun I started as a kid with the love of the P-51, but I have been reading more. This engine gave the Hellcat a maximum speed of 386mph.
4 x .50 caliber M2 Browning heavy machine guns.
The Hellcat is, by far, the best fighter ever used against the A6M series and it decimated the Zero. By the end of 1943, Japan had lost a LOT of senior pilots and the Zeros were being flown by green trainees. In the original list of criteria it asked that long term life and that a production of over 10,000. This resulted in a remarkable kill ratio of 19:1. F6F Hellcat vs A6M Zero-sen book. In: Heroes, Military, Military Monday. It was better than the Zero in almost every way: more armor protection, faster speed, more manueverability, faster climb and dive.
At the 2009 Pacific Coast Dream Machines show, Jason brought up the CAF F6F Hellcat and Ken brought the CAF Zero. The following is the summary of a report on comparative performance trials between an F6F-5 and a captured Zeke 52 undertaken by Technical Air Intelligence Centre at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. The F6F Hellcat was known as the Zero KILLER. In those days, Grumman’s credo was “Make it strong, make it work and make it simple.” The prototype XF6F-3 became the production F6F-3 nearly untouched, and the only other Hellcat upgrade, the F6F-5, mounted an R-2800-10W that had an additional 200 hp. The simple fact that it uses a later engine (R-2800-18W rather than the F6F-5's R-2800-10W) is proof of that, and enough that the comparison isn't exactly fair. Well, anyway, here goes.
The hardest part of this reply was trying to figure out WHEN the A6M5 entered service. Still, the Wildcat is better in terms of pilot visibility than the later Hellcat.
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