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The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II. Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and to counter the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero , it was the United States Navy 's dominant fighter in the second half of the Pacific War .
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The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft. [2] Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman and his business partners, it merged in 1994 with Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman .
Grumman's Wildcat production ceased in early 1943 to make way for the newer F6F Hellcat, but General Motors continued producing Wildcats for both U.S. Navy and Fleet Air Arm use. Late in the war, the Wildcat was obsolescent as a front line fighter compared to the faster (380 mph/610 km/h) F6F Hellcat or much faster (446 mph/718 km/h) F4U Corsair.
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighter Squadron 1 (VF-1) in flight over California (USA), in early 1943. VF-1 was redesignated VF-5 in July 1943.
Grumman F6F Hellcat, the primary United States Navy aircraft carrier fighter in the second half of World War II; M18 Hellcat, a United States tank destroyer used in World War II. 12th Armored Division (United States), nicknamed the Hellcat Division (or Hellcats for short) Short Hellcat, a planned air-to-surface variant of the Seacat missile
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File: Burning Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-2 aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) on 10 November 1943 (80-G-205473).jpg