We explore how the Mitsubishi A6M Zero went from an underestimated design to the aircraft that shattered Allied confidence in 1941. Tracing Jiro Horikoshi’s engineering choices, Japan’s hard-earned ...

Japan began the Pacific War with two major technological advantages over the U.S. Navy: the much more reliable Long Lance torpedo, and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero carried-based fighter, a design that ...