Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a highly ...

KAWAGUCHIKO, Japan — The Mitsubishi A6M fighter, commonly known as the Zero, could outmaneuver every airplane it encountered when the Japanese swept across the Pacific at the start of World War II.

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a Mitsubishi A6M2 that was captured at Akutan Island, Alaska, in August 1942. This Mitsubishi A6M2 fighter was the first "Zero" to fall intact into ...

The Zero endures as a symbol of Imperial Japan’s efficiency and menace. Imperial Japan’s most iconic piece of military hardware may well be the Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero, which at the time of its debut was ...

The Zero endures as a symbol of Imperial Japan’s efficiency and menace. Imperial Japan’s most iconic piece of military hardware may well be the Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero, which at the time... What You Need ...

Use the controls at the bottom of the frame to navigate, zoom in and out, or view full-screen. Mitsubishi designed the Navy Type Zero Carrier-Based Fighter in 1937, and it became the symbol of ...

While a dogfight can’t be reduced entirely to the distinctions between two machines, it’s necessary to look closely at the aircraft flown by Saburo Sakai and Pug Southerland to understand exactly what ...

Wargaming has announced a new set of Japanese Imperial aircraft for its combat sim, World of Warplanes. The first batch to arrive will be carrier-based fighters - Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero, Nakajima Type ...

One reason the Zero was so successful in dogfights was its phenomenal maneuverability. The Zero was a lightweight, low-wing monoplane that generated high lift at low speeds with low-wing loading. The ...