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Originally posted by mbossman2
The contemporaries of the Zero were the american P-40 Warhawk and Grumman Wilcat F4F. Compared to the Zero, they were slow in level filght, had a poor climbing rate, not very manueverable and underarmed, but in the hands of the right pilots and with correct tactics, they outclassed the zero in plane and pilot survivability.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Zero un-matched during the first years of the war?
A lot of interesting points, I still wander about the design of the Zero.
Trade right up until the beginning of a war is something I wouldn't do, especially if you can listen to your trading partner talk about attacking you. But I guess that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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