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"never dogfight with a Zero" advice that held true to the end of the war. America's number 2 ace, Thomas McGuire made this mistake late in the war and paid with his life. Yes, it was an Oscar but very similar plane.
This video brilliantly unpacks the story of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter, a technological marvel that stunned the Allies with its agility and range, reshaping early Pacific War air combat. A fascinating deep dive into design innovation, its tactical impact, and eventual counters by the Allies. Excellent storytelling and historical insight
Excellent summary of the history of the Zero. In defense of its creators, at the time it was being developed and fielded the use of pilot and engine armor and fuel tank protection in fighter aircraft was just emerging-the American F4F only receiving its protection around the time of the first carrier engagements at Coral Sea and Midway. Japanese designers were well aware of the benefits of pilot and engine armor and fuel tank protection, but the excellent performance of the Zero depended upon its light weight. Tests to add such severely limited its range, which was unacceptable in light of IJN doctrine, which itself depended upon maintaining a fighting advantage by keeping the carriers out of the range of enemy attack planes. So, the Zero soldiered on to its own destruction, pretty as it had been originally created.
You're not looking very hard 🤔 The Corsair was in service from 1940-53 (actual production run) and shot down its last enemy in 1969... That's A LOT of stories
Aichi was acquired by Nissan postwar and left the manufacturing business completely so it's gone. Should we take a look at Kawasaki who was the plane supplier of Japanese Army later?
I used to live in Hawaii and have spoken to several older people on Oahu who remember the Zeros flying so low during the Pearl Harbor attack that they could see the leather flight helmets of the pilots... I've read the book Samurai, the biography of Saburo Sakai, Zero pilot and top ace, a riveting read. There is also Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots by Henry Sakaida.
yeah man im not liking AI for factual videos. I love me some authentic Black and white photos from the era. AI content is OK for like....showing flags i guess? theres plenty of cool footage of the zero in action and in china they couldve pulled...
Nice video as always. Keep the good work, waiting for other videos. I also have a suggestion, as a brazilian guy, i would like to watch a video about the paraguayan war, or the brazilian independence war or some video talking about brazilians in ww2, it'd be so nice. And another suggestion, a video about the boer wars, a topic that i like so much. Waiting for the next videos 😊😊.
The Zero was like the battlecruiser concept: heavyweight firepower but the chin of a lightweight fighting heavyweights, banking on speed and maneuverability to compensate. You might score some rounds or even wins if your opponents haven't figured you out yet, but once they do, there's a reason classes exist. Zero was outclassed as a concept and even as a machine from late 1942 onward, just as Japan was, with all punching above their weight which was cute until they take a right hook called a Thatch Weave or 1000lb bomb to a flight deck defended by magazine-fed canNOTS.
This metaphor sounds all very good but it takes a fighter to be able to get on the tail of a Zero to shoot it down. In the early years, the Zero had its way over Buffaloes, Airacobras, Tomahawks and the British Hurricane. Only when faster and manoeuvrable fighters like Hellcats and Corsairs) came on board and later mark of Spitfires were the Zeroes matched. ( Not the initial Mark V) . Once hit by fire, the Zeroes exploded in flames and its vulnerability came to the fore.
@@Vierzehn014true. But it was good enough and the Zero pilots couldn't really unlock it especially as time wore on with the untrained personnel and equipment on hand, so even though it could be theoretically countered, reality was it wasn't.
@@richardbanker3910 you're right but even with marginally inferior equipment as far as performance goes (Wildcat, Tomahawk, etc.) the Allied still held their own with improved tactics. The steady output of adequate pilots and adequate equipment from an industrial powerhouse was inevitably going to win against a country with marginally superior equipment but industrial pauper-hood and initially vastly superior pilots whose attrition would result in inadequate numbers of inadequate pilots.
Okay, what in the world is going on at 8:00? I think you'd be better off with a table of statistics than a graphic of representations that aren't in any but the loosest possible senses representative. I'd understand simplifying, but three "cylinders" that are cubic? Where did that come from? And is that a Kate at 2:46? It's definitely not a "single-seat open cockpit fighter," with that long, entirely enclosed greenhouse-style cockpit. Seriously, I'd like to know what happened here. This is stuff I consider properly basic, that anyone who knows the subject should immediately see is profoundly flawed, and therefore dangerous to distribute as fact to anyone who doesn't know the subject.
Seems to me like either an editor was rushed to finish or an AI mistake. Wouldn't go as far as calling it dangerous, since i I view this more as edutainment than a historical document. Plus, anyone that wants to look more into the subject will probably just go to wikipedia and go from there.
In fairness to the British, it's hard to get excited about the A6M. It was a far away threat. The Germans were in their face and Bombing them in 1940. The ME 109 was of more concern and more dangerous because they were flying in from France to the Homeland. The A6M was a threat to the Colonials such as Australia or India.
Japanese sacrificed armor and firepower for speed and range. And for a time it worked. But it can only get you so far in a war of attrition against the US with her massive war production. Add to that Japans continued loss of her best pilots some veterans since the Sino-Japanese war. It was doomed to fail
*The Zero was symbolic of Japanese war philosophy: your vulnerability is irrelevant if you deliver a first, fatal blow to the enemy. The fallback plan was to die bravely in battle.*
As anyone seen the movie "When the Wind Rises." Even though it doesn't mention it the movie is a little about the man who help design the Zero Fighter. It's a pretty interesting movie.
in the late 1960s one of my Boy Scout adult leaders, who was stationed somewhere in the Pacific in World War II, said the Americans could always hear the Japanese Zeroes coming for an attack, because they sounded like washing machines. When I saw a Zero years later, I would say that a Zero's engine sounds similar to a washing machine in the spin cycle. The American aircraft fighter aircraft I have seen from World War II have engines that sound much different from those of a Zero.
Shinden is J7W which was way a land based interceptor late introduced You probably mean the N1K2 Shiden Kai, land base variant of the N1K1 Kyoofu floatplane, which also introduced late in the war (except the Kyoofu)
@@cardiv5zuikaku944 I think you mean N1K2-J for the Shiden Kai, the "-J" is important as it is what signified that it was a land based fighter rather than a seaplane fighter. The N1K1-J was the Shiden (no Kai) and was land based, but still had a mid wing rather than the low wing of the later N1K2-J. Similarly, the seaplane fighter variant of the Zero was the A6M2-N.
@thanakonpraepanich4284 The Hayate had performance specs that were competitive in 1945, but it suffered from poor quality fuel, unreliable engines, and of course poorly trained pilots. It did quite well in post war US testing. The Shinden never got out of the prototype phase, so we may never know.
Off topic, can king and generals do a series about the 80 years independent war and golden age of the Netherlands? As a Dutch man this conflict is still massively confusing because it was so chaotic
It’s shocking to see how the Allied forces underestimated Japanese aircraft. Pearl Harbor and Force Z were brutal lessons about the risks of overconfidence and underestimating opponents.
Like many surviving World War II Japanese aircraft, most surviving Zeros are made up of parts from multiple airframes. As a result, some are referred to by conflicting manufacturer serial numbers. Other planes, such as those recovered after decades in a wrecked condition, have been reconstructed to the extent that the majority of their structure is made up of modern parts.
Hi, you uploaded a great video. I wish to raise a small but significant issue and I hope you will provide the requested action. My request is to put metric units on ALL measurement units. 95% of the world are not as familiar with US units as US-based people. And I'll hazard a guess that majority of your viewers are from metric countries as well (that is to say not USA, Liberia (?) and Myanmar (?)). Again, good job as always, but please be consistent in providing metric units. Thanks!
All these nerds talking about what people already know. What is lacking is the basic notion that a plane is a tangible expression of the tactics and strategy of a nation. The zero was the perfect expression of Japans war philosophy: hit hard, fly far and fast. Its demise has more to do with the inadequacy of such philosophy rather than lack of self fueling tanks. If they added those, the zero would have had far less range, which was very important for the Japanese war effort.
Really good stuff...thank you for detailed historical content about technologies like the Zero fighter. I look forward to similar treatments for a whole list of planes...many of which others have already suggested. 👍💯😁 Though...you could teach your reader AI how to say Grumman a lot better. LOL
Lack of armor and self sealing tanks was not uncommon at the time. The main issue of the zero is that its tiny frame and lack of power could not incorporate those additions later on. The main culprit was that the Japanese lacked the expertise in producing powerful engines for small planes. And when did come up with a good design, they lacked the alloys and resources.
I think the zero sits up there with the p-51 Mustang, b1b lancer, and f14 tomcat on the "Sexiest planes to fly" list. Shout out to the early mig's in korea and vietnam
I'm not sure that the Zero dominated the war until mid 1943. In the battles around Guadalcanal it seems to me that they were slightly outmatched by the Wildcat.
What the IJN wanted, they got. Maneuverability and range. At the expense of pilot and aircraft survivability. But the Zero’s greatest strength was it’s superior pilots. Who were dead by 1943
If you can't beat them, learn from them. Since the planes of the US weren't fast enough to catch up to the Zero. You have to develop tactics against it, such as taking advantage of its weak armor.
That happened all the Time... Even experienced Japanese Pilots knew how to counter the Tatch wave... The problem Is that there wer few of those later on!
For its name, the "Type Zero" came from it being adopted in 1940, aka 2600 in the Japanese imperial calendar (only the last 2 numbers were used, the dive bomber adopted in 1939/2599 was the Type 99). The nickname "Reisen/零戦" was a shortening of its full designation "零式艦上戦闘機/Rei-shiki kanjou sentouki" or Type 0 Carrier-Based Fighter, where "Rei" is "Zero" and "Sen" is the first part of "Fighter".
@dogsbecute One annoying thing with their nomenclature is that sometimes they will use "X" year of the emperor's reign rather than the imperial calendar. For example, the Type 38 Rifle was adopted in Meiji 38 (1905), not imperial year 2538 (1878), while the Type 99 Rifle was adopted in imperial year 2599 (1939). Luckily, the imperial year nomenclature is much more common, but it's something to watch out for.
It was a good fighter for the fight it had to do. If the Zero was any heavier, it would have been unable to fly to Guadalcanal from Rabaul AND back. Imperfect fighter coverage Is better than no coverage at all.
The Japanese seemed incapable of making significant improvements to the Zero and seemed unable to train enough pilots to replace the Aces killed early in the war once the US was involved. If you're counting on out maneuvering your opponents, then you need to have extensive training to learn these techniques. So no improvements to the plane, no improvements to the training, and soon, no fuel to train with seems like a recipe for disaster which came after the "the turkey shoot".
Old Filipino's said that Japanese Fighter Planes or what they called as Tora Tora. Can actually fly very low that even in a stiff terrain and jungle they would fly lower just to scared the locals. The only thing you are lucky is when the Japanese planes are in group, you'll survived but if its only one Japanese Fighter. Better hide cause the Japanese pilots will literally use you as their genie pigs
@@adambane1719 You keep repeating the same thing like it's really deep or something. Why don't you elaborate on your profound statement so we can humiliate you.
@@soulknife20doesnt take away the fact that however bad the Japanese were, the western Powers were blinded by their arrogance AND racial prejudice at the start.
As a YT member for 16 months now, i feel the need to say I heavily disapprove of the AI used in this video. Please do not use AI. A channel like yours that has been known for its quality will only suffer through the use of these programs. Love the videos, love the channel, but if AI becomes a regularly occurring feature of your videos i wont hesitate to cancel my membership. AI shit isnt worth my money
@@KingsandGenerals Then what's with the three-cylinder "radial" engines with cube-shaped "cylinders?" What's with the Kate or the Val or whatever that's supposed to be at 2:46 representing an "open-cockpit fighter" with its obviously multi-crew fully enclosed greenhouse cockpit? I've come to find your work generally of very good quality, but the issues I'm seeing here are of the level of first-iteration AI generated imagery, with the obvious glitches and eight-fingered hands and such. I'm genuinely curious what's going on, if there was no AI used at all in the making of this video.
Make a video on why young and handsome ussr boi (country )refused to annex naughty Mongol sundere girl (country) how did she felt make a video about it.
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"never dogfight with a Zero" advice that held true to the end of the war. America's number 2 ace, Thomas McGuire made this mistake late in the war and paid with his life. Yes, it was an Oscar but very similar plane.
Didn't know about McGuire's story and just read it. It's a shame that his engine stalled.
Don't TURN with one if you're in a Wildcat
FINALLY, the Zero gang has long awaited this day.
Banzai🇯🇵
Zero gang rise up!
But don’t rise up too much or those Hellcats will mess you up 💀💀💀
FOR REAL. It's such a incredible plane
@@RoughRouser Or Corsairs for that matter
This video brilliantly unpacks the story of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter, a technological marvel that stunned the Allies with its agility and range, reshaping early Pacific War air combat. A fascinating deep dive into design innovation, its tactical impact, and eventual counters by the Allies. Excellent storytelling and historical insight
Excellent summary of the history of the Zero. In defense of its creators, at the time it was being developed and fielded the use of pilot and engine armor and fuel tank protection in fighter aircraft was just emerging-the American F4F only receiving its protection around the time of the first carrier engagements at Coral Sea and Midway. Japanese designers were well aware of the benefits of pilot and engine armor and fuel tank protection, but the excellent performance of the Zero depended upon its light weight. Tests to add such severely limited its range, which was unacceptable in light of IJN doctrine, which itself depended upon maintaining a fighting advantage by keeping the carriers out of the range of enemy attack planes. So, the Zero soldiered on to its own destruction, pretty as it had been originally created.
This Is the best comment, understanding the plane not as a collection of performance stats, but as a result of war doctrine. Very good!
Great episode as always! I would absolutely love to see an episode on the Corsair. One of my favorites growing up yet I don’t see much about it
You're not looking very hard 🤔
The Corsair was in service from 1940-53 (actual production run) and shot down its last enemy in 1969...
That's A LOT of stories
Sidenote: Nakajima Aircraft (Engine maker of Zero) is a predecessor to Subaru today. Like BMW, they survived as car manufacturer.
Yep, and Kawanishi survives as ShinMeiwa, still making flying boats to this day, not to mention Mitsubishi.
Aichi was acquired by Nissan postwar and left the manufacturing business completely so it's gone.
Should we take a look at Kawasaki who was the plane supplier of Japanese Army later?
I used to live in Hawaii and have spoken to several older people on Oahu who remember the Zeros flying so low during the Pearl Harbor attack that they could see the leather flight helmets of the pilots...
I've read the book Samurai, the biography of Saburo Sakai, Zero pilot and top ace, a riveting read. There is also Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots by Henry Sakaida.
The long promised video. Looking forward to this.
So happy for this upload!!
Your AI video creation software doesn't seem up to the task. Pictures of Vals? standing in for open cockpit fighters? Ridiculous 3 cylinder radials?
yeah man im not liking AI for factual videos. I love me some authentic Black and white photos from the era. AI content is OK for like....showing flags i guess? theres plenty of cool footage of the zero in action and in china they couldve pulled...
Nice video as always. Keep the good work, waiting for other videos.
I also have a suggestion, as a brazilian guy, i would like to watch a video about the paraguayan war, or the brazilian independence war or some video talking about brazilians in ww2, it'd be so nice. And another suggestion, a video about the boer wars, a topic that i like so much. Waiting for the next videos 😊😊.
Noted!
The Boer wars would be cool to see a vids on, don't see them talked about much
The aircraft which appears early in the video at about 3 minutes looks like an Aichi D3A Val, complete with bomb.
2:18 The Wind Rises. Great movie (historical fiction, I know)
I just finished watching The Wind Rises (2014), coincidence ❤.
Thank you, KNG for these vids. Please, do the other airplanes as well.
The Zero was like the battlecruiser concept: heavyweight firepower but the chin of a lightweight fighting heavyweights, banking on speed and maneuverability to compensate.
You might score some rounds or even wins if your opponents haven't figured you out yet, but once they do, there's a reason classes exist.
Zero was outclassed as a concept and even as a machine from late 1942 onward, just as Japan was, with all punching above their weight which was cute until they take a right hook called a Thatch Weave or 1000lb bomb to a flight deck defended by magazine-fed canNOTS.
This metaphor sounds all very good but it takes a fighter to be able to get on the tail of a Zero to shoot it down. In the early years, the Zero had its way over Buffaloes, Airacobras, Tomahawks and the British Hurricane. Only when faster and manoeuvrable fighters like Hellcats and Corsairs) came on board and later mark of Spitfires were the Zeroes matched. ( Not the initial Mark V) . Once hit by fire, the Zeroes exploded in flames and its vulnerability came to the fore.
Thatch weave isnt some uncounterable manuever lol
@@Vierzehn014true. But it was good enough and the Zero pilots couldn't really unlock it especially as time wore on with the untrained personnel and equipment on hand, so even though it could be theoretically countered, reality was it wasn't.
@@richardbanker3910 you're right but even with marginally inferior equipment as far as performance goes (Wildcat, Tomahawk, etc.) the Allied still held their own with improved tactics. The steady output of adequate pilots and adequate equipment from an industrial powerhouse was inevitably going to win against a country with marginally superior equipment but industrial pauper-hood and initially vastly superior pilots whose attrition would result in inadequate numbers of inadequate pilots.
Yeah not really, the zero was kicking the Americans in the teeth and holding it's own until the Americans introduced the Hellcat
Okay, what in the world is going on at 8:00? I think you'd be better off with a table of statistics than a graphic of representations that aren't in any but the loosest possible senses representative. I'd understand simplifying, but three "cylinders" that are cubic? Where did that come from?
And is that a Kate at 2:46? It's definitely not a "single-seat open cockpit fighter," with that long, entirely enclosed greenhouse-style cockpit.
Seriously, I'd like to know what happened here. This is stuff I consider properly basic, that anyone who knows the subject should immediately see is profoundly flawed, and therefore dangerous to distribute as fact to anyone who doesn't know the subject.
Shitty AI video making program. Sad that this channel has stooped to the level of using AI for videos.
These assets were made in blender, i have a feeling their sources are a bit off.
Seems to me like either an editor was rushed to finish or an AI mistake.
Wouldn't go as far as calling it dangerous, since i
I view this more as edutainment than a historical document. Plus, anyone that wants to look more into the subject will probably just go to wikipedia and go from there.
Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
Until it's finally decided you've marinated in your arrogance long enough - then it moves swiftly and mercilessly
@@RENEGADEJon19 You can't win a fair fight against unscrupulous people
@@adambane1719 It was never a fair fight to begin with, it was a foolish huge gamble that had little chance of success.
I always loved the Zero, it's truly a beautiful plane that dominated in the early war.
@@jameshannagan4256 America hijacked Japans fair fight in Asia with their oil embargoes and false flag entry into the war for "American interests"
The A7M Reppu was intended to be its sucessor but as with Japan, it lacked the time and resource to bring it into service
You couldn't get worse debut than having your factory collapsed on your prototypes days before the maiden flight because of the earthquake...
The Japanese did have several fighters mid and late War that could match the Americans. (Ki 61, Ki 84, N1K2-J) Although they were army fighters.
@joshmeads N1K was Navy
In fairness to the British, it's hard to get excited about the A6M. It was a far away threat. The Germans were in their face and Bombing them in 1940. The ME 109 was of more concern and more dangerous because they were flying in from France to the Homeland. The A6M was a threat to the Colonials such as Australia or India.
One of the most iconic planes of WWII
Japanese sacrificed armor and firepower for speed and range. And for a time it worked. But it can only get you so far in a war of attrition against the US with her massive war production. Add to that Japans continued loss of her best pilots some veterans since the Sino-Japanese war. It was doomed to fail
I've been waiting for this and I love the writing and the art is awesome!
*The Zero was symbolic of Japanese war philosophy: your vulnerability is irrelevant if you deliver a first, fatal blow to the enemy. The fallback plan was to die bravely in battle.*
Dogfights was my favorite program in the History Channel. Remember the old 666!
As anyone seen the movie "When the Wind Rises." Even though it doesn't mention it the movie is a little about the man who help design the Zero Fighter. It's a pretty interesting movie.
Excellent film.
@@philjones3824---IKR
There was a very popular band in Bombay named after this plane.
Can't wait for you to do that video on the Hellcat and the Corsair. Great video.
The F6F was already being designed before the captured Aleutians island Zero was tested. This myth is sadly repeated too often.
The Mitsubishi everyone wants: Evo, Eclipse
The Mitsubishi I want: *this video*
Please do more videos covering aircraft. Including Cold War jets!
Make a video on the history of lakshadweep islands please
Great video, thank you for finally releasing it. Can you please do a video on the hellcat?
Like all their equipment, they were in service for a long time. They didn’t have to industry to replace/update everything
Watch The Wind Rises anime by Studio Ghibli if you're interested in Mitsubishi Zero inventor
I’ve been wanting this one for a minute ❤
What a coincidence, yesterday I started a game of civ 5 as Japan. One of two Japanese unique units is the zero! 😁
I’ve had the fortune to see one of these planes in person! I live near Dayton where the Air Force museum is; they have two Zeros on display.
in the late 1960s one of my Boy Scout adult leaders, who was stationed somewhere in the Pacific in World War II, said the Americans could always hear the Japanese Zeroes coming for an attack, because they sounded like washing machines. When I saw a Zero years later, I would say that a Zero's engine sounds similar to a washing machine in the spin cycle. The American aircraft fighter aircraft I have seen from World War II have engines that sound much different from those of a Zero.
More pacific war episode compilation
Nk2 Shinden fighter: Am i late!?
Shinden is J7W which was way a land based interceptor late introduced
You probably mean the N1K2 Shiden Kai, land base variant of the N1K1 Kyoofu floatplane, which also introduced late in the war (except the Kyoofu)
@@cardiv5zuikaku944 I think you mean N1K2-J for the Shiden Kai, the "-J" is important as it is what signified that it was a land based fighter rather than a seaplane fighter. The N1K1-J was the Shiden (no Kai) and was land based, but still had a mid wing rather than the low wing of the later N1K2-J. Similarly, the seaplane fighter variant of the Zero was the A6M2-N.
@@Quasarnova1 yes
Ki-84 came back from being mauled in the Philippines: I'd say...
Both Shinden and Hayate were launched two years late in my opinion.
@thanakonpraepanich4284 The Hayate had performance specs that were competitive in 1945, but it suffered from poor quality fuel, unreliable engines, and of course poorly trained pilots. It did quite well in post war US testing. The Shinden never got out of the prototype phase, so we may never know.
This could be a new whole series, Rise and Fall ww2 weapon and machinery
Screams in burning when playing Warthunder.
Thanks 👍
Thanks for the video
The Zero is technically the world's first long range bomber.
The official Japanese name for the Zero fighter is the TYPE Zero carrier-based air fight machine.
16:17
Off topic, can king and generals do a series about the 80 years independent war and golden age of the Netherlands? As a Dutch man this conflict is still massively confusing because it was so chaotic
It’s shocking to see how the Allied forces underestimated Japanese aircraft. Pearl Harbor and Force Z were brutal lessons about the risks of overconfidence and underestimating opponents.
Like many surviving World War II Japanese aircraft, most surviving Zeros are made up of parts from multiple airframes. As a result, some are referred to by conflicting manufacturer serial numbers. Other planes, such as those recovered after decades in a wrecked condition, have been reconstructed to the extent that the majority of their structure is made up of modern parts.
WWIII?! Are you from the future?
Early war fighters of all nations in general usually lacked armo(u)r.
Jiro Horikoshi's life is the basis of the Studio Ghibli movie 'The Wind Rises'
Hi, you uploaded a great video. I wish to raise a small but significant issue and I hope you will provide the requested action. My request is to put metric units on ALL measurement units. 95% of the world are not as familiar with US units as US-based people. And I'll hazard a guess that majority of your viewers are from metric countries as well (that is to say not USA, Liberia (?) and Myanmar (?)).
Again, good job as always, but please be consistent in providing metric units. Thanks!
The channel runners are Canadian.
'Open cockpit' ?!
The lack of armor and self sealing gas tanks cost the Japanese pilots which were impossible for the Japanese to replace.
All these nerds talking about what people already know. What is lacking is the basic notion that a plane is a tangible expression of the tactics and strategy of a nation. The zero was the perfect expression of Japans war philosophy: hit hard, fly far and fast. Its demise has more to do with the inadequacy of such philosophy rather than lack of self fueling tanks. If they added those, the zero would have had far less range, which was very important for the Japanese war effort.
3:30 Taihoku = Taipei = Formosa Taiwan under Japanese rule during ww2
Really good stuff...thank you for detailed historical content about technologies like the Zero fighter. I look forward to similar treatments for a whole list of planes...many of which others have already suggested. 👍💯😁
Though...you could teach your reader AI how to say Grumman a lot better. LOL
Shorts having a poor engagement to actual payout ratio eh?
Long promised, and finally delivered!
Samurai of the sky
I am still waiting for the ottoman empire documentary
Lack of armor and self sealing tanks was not uncommon at the time. The main issue of the zero is that its tiny frame and lack of power could not incorporate those additions later on. The main culprit was that the Japanese lacked the expertise in producing powerful engines for small planes. And when did come up with a good design, they lacked the alloys and resources.
Great job! Its like Yarnhub but better voiceover.
Will wait for the others
Lightnings
Hellcats
Corsairs
Ki-27
Ki-43
Yay! It's here! 🎉🎉🎉
My favorite aircraft of the war. It's such a terrible beauty.
The Japanese did have several fighters mid and late War that could match the Americans. (Ki 61, Ki 84, N1K2-J) Although they were army fighters.
excellent as always
I think the zero sits up there with the p-51 Mustang, b1b lancer, and f14 tomcat on the "Sexiest planes to fly" list. Shout out to the early mig's in korea and vietnam
I'm not sure that the Zero dominated the war until mid 1943. In the battles around Guadalcanal it seems to me that they were slightly outmatched by the Wildcat.
What the IJN wanted, they got. Maneuverability and range. At the expense of pilot and aircraft survivability. But the Zero’s greatest strength was it’s superior pilots. Who were dead by 1943
Oh I've never heard about this captured zero thing. I wonder how influential it was in the development of the hellcat.
Mostly tactics for current pilots from the weaknesses identified - eg is turn left or right better?
If you can't beat them, learn from them. Since the planes of the US weren't fast enough to catch up to the Zero. You have to develop tactics against it, such as taking advantage of its weak armor.
That happened all the Time... Even experienced Japanese Pilots knew how to counter the Tatch wave... The problem Is that there wer few of those later on!
Next : Rise and fall of German uboat
6:50 Mr Miyagi?
For its name, the "Type Zero" came from it being adopted in 1940, aka 2600 in the Japanese imperial calendar (only the last 2 numbers were used, the dive bomber adopted in 1939/2599 was the Type 99). The nickname "Reisen/零戦" was a shortening of its full designation "零式艦上戦闘機/Rei-shiki kanjou sentouki" or Type 0 Carrier-Based Fighter, where "Rei" is "Zero" and "Sen" is the first part of "Fighter".
i love japanese nomenclature, and thank you for this insight. i never knew that was the reason they were called "Type-X"! fascinating
@dogsbecute One annoying thing with their nomenclature is that sometimes they will use "X" year of the emperor's reign rather than the imperial calendar. For example, the Type 38 Rifle was adopted in Meiji 38 (1905), not imperial year 2538 (1878), while the Type 99 Rifle was adopted in imperial year 2599 (1939). Luckily, the imperial year nomenclature is much more common, but it's something to watch out for.
Grumman. Is pronounced G RUM AN. Not G ROO MAN
designed by howard hughes
It was a very good fighter plane of the 1930s. Unfortunately, it was a 1930s fighter in a war of the 1940s.
Yup. Then it met the Hellcat.
They dominated the Pacific theater and decimated the Americans in the early 40's
It was a good fighter for the fight it had to do. If the Zero was any heavier, it would have been unable to fly to Guadalcanal from Rabaul AND back. Imperfect fighter coverage Is better than no coverage at all.
They dominated the Pacific theater and decimated the Americans in the early 40's
The Japanese seemed incapable of making significant improvements to the Zero and seemed unable to train enough pilots to replace the Aces killed early in the war once the US was involved. If you're counting on out maneuvering your opponents, then you need to have extensive training to learn these techniques. So no improvements to the plane, no improvements to the training, and soon, no fuel to train with seems like a recipe for disaster which came after the "the turkey shoot".
Will you do a video about the bombing of Chongqing ?
The F22 of its time...
10,000 variants?, 10,000ish airframes in (#?) Variants.
Old Filipino's said that Japanese Fighter Planes or what they called as Tora Tora. Can actually fly very low that even in a stiff terrain and jungle they would fly lower just to scared the locals.
The only thing you are lucky is when the Japanese planes are in group, you'll survived but if its only one Japanese Fighter. Better hide cause the Japanese pilots will literally use you as their genie pigs
Mitsubishi Zero - The legend.
I hope Toyota had a zero as well.
For the Japanese the pilot is more expendable than improving technology
Very nice video 📹 👍 👌
I'm pretty sure the Japanese forces were constantly told that they were superior in every way to their enemies.
Good video.
The West: Hah! the Japanese could never build a good plane!
Japan: *Bettu*
And then the Zero got wrecked. Due to lack of good pilots and the US having better pilots
@@soulknife20 You can't win a fair fight against unscrupulous people
@@adambane1719 You keep repeating the same thing like it's really deep or something. Why don't you elaborate on your profound statement so we can humiliate you.
@@soulknife20doesnt take away the fact that however bad the Japanese were, the western Powers were blinded by their arrogance AND racial prejudice at the start.
As a YT member for 16 months now, i feel the need to say I heavily disapprove of the AI used in this video. Please do not use AI. A channel like yours that has been known for its quality will only suffer through the use of these programs. Love the videos, love the channel, but if AI becomes a regularly occurring feature of your videos i wont hesitate to cancel my membership. AI shit isnt worth my money
AI wasn't used in this video. I have seen every asset in Blender.
@@KingsandGenerals Then what's with the three-cylinder "radial" engines with cube-shaped "cylinders?" What's with the Kate or the Val or whatever that's supposed to be at 2:46 representing an "open-cockpit fighter" with its obviously multi-crew fully enclosed greenhouse cockpit?
I've come to find your work generally of very good quality, but the issues I'm seeing here are of the level of first-iteration AI generated imagery, with the obvious glitches and eight-fingered hands and such. I'm genuinely curious what's going on, if there was no AI used at all in the making of this video.
The Hellcat was less maneuverable but not so much less maneuverable to where it mattered anymore.
Why does he keep saying Grumman so weird?
Very good history 👍
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Ah yes, the amazing Zero, that had a negative kd ratio against American dive bombers.
Dumb question, just signed up today, but where do I find the discord server invite?