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The A6M is usually known as the "Zero" from its Japanese Navy aircraft_type designation, Type 0 carrier fighter (Rei shiki Kanjō sentōki, 零式艦上戦闘機), taken from the last digit of the Imperial year 2600 (1940) when it entered service.
One of the most famous planes of the Second World War, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero-Sen, was Japan’s best fighter and the bane of Allied airmen in the Pacific. The Zero was designed to meet a tough set of specifications set down by the Japanese Navy in 1937. They wanted a plane to replace the A5M carrier fighter, also produced by Mitsubishi.
Zero, fighter aircraft, a single-seat, low-wing monoplane used with great effect by the Japanese during World War II. Designed by Horikoshi Jiro, it was the first carrier-based fighter capable of besting its land-based opponents.
The Allies' main opponent in the Pacific air war, the Zero is the most famous symbol of Japanese air power during World War II. The fighter first flew in April 1939, and Mitsubishi, Nakajima, Hitachi and the Japanese navy produced 10,815 Zeros from 1940-1945.
A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter trails smoke as it loses altitude during an air raid on the U.S. base at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands. The raid took place in June 1942, during the campaign to seize the islands of Attu and Kiska along with Midway Atoll in the Central Pacific.
Few American fighter pilots on their own survived a turning, twisting, close-in dogfight against a capable Japanese pilot flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero during World War II. Curator Russell Lee explores in a new blog.
Main Japanese naval fighter of WW2, the legendary A6M gained an aura of invincibility in the first year of the war in the Pacific, brushing aside all opposition, but its advantages became problems in 44-45.
The legendary A6M (the dreaded Zero) was the first carrier-based fighter in history to outperform land-based equivalents, and it arrived in greater quantities than any other Japanese aircraft. Despite the Zero’s aura of invincibility, better Allied machines gradually rendered it obsolete.
At the start of World War II, Japan's Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter was the most vaunted and feared weapon in the enemy arsenal. Lightweight and maneuverable, the Zero was able to outfly and...
The Zero made a decisive contribution to Japan’s early successes in the war, and from Pearl Harbor until the Battle of Midway in June 1942 the Mitsubishi fighter (called ‘Zeke’ by the Allies) dominated the Pacific skies. The turning point came after this battle.