© 1997 Joao Paulo
Julião Matsuura
Mitsubishi A6M Reisen (Zero Fighter)
Allied Code Name: "Zeke"
(Scanned from René J. Francillion "Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" - Putnam - 1979)
UNITS ALLOCATED
2nd, 3rd, 6th, 12th, 202nd, 204th, 205th, 221st, 251st, 252nd, 261st, 281st, 302nd, 331st, 341st, 343rd, 381st, 601st, 652nd, 653rd, 721st, Genzan, Konoike, Oita, Tainan, Tsukuba, Yatabe and Southern Islands Kokutais.
(Scanned from Barrie Pitt "The Illustrated History of World War II" - Temple Press Aerospace - 1986)
(Scanned from Barrie Pitt "The Illustrated History of World War II" - Temple Press Aerospace - 1986)
(Scanned from "Guerra nos Céus" - Rio Gráfica Ltda. - 1986)
(Scanned from "Aviões da Segunda Guerra Mundial" - Abril Cultural S.A. - 1975)
(Scanned from "Guerra nos Céus" - Rio Gráfica Ltda. - 1986)
(Scanned from "Guerra nos Céus" - Rio Gráfica Ltda. - 1986)
(Scanned from "Guerra nos Céus" - Rio Gráfica Ltda. - 1986)
(Scanned from "As Armas da Segunda Guerra Mundial" - Editora Codex Ltda. - 1965)
TECHNICAL DATA
Accommodation: Pilot in enclosed cockpit.
Powerplant:
- One Mitsubishi Zuisei 13 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 780 hp for take-off and 875 hp at 3,600 m, driving a two- or three-blade metal propeller (A6M1).
- One Nakajima NK1C Sakae 12 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 940 hp for take-off and 950 hp at 4,200 m, driving a three-blade metal propeller (A6M2).
- One Nakajima NK1F Sakae 21 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 1,130 hp for take-off, 1,100 hp at 2,850 m and 980 hp at 6,000 m, driving a three-blade metal propeller (A6M3, A6M5, A6M5a, A6M5b and A6M5c).
- One Nakajima Sakae 31 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 1,130 hp for take-off, 1,100 hp at 2,850 m and 980 hp at 6,000 m, driving a three-blade metal propeller (A6M6c and A6M7).
- One Mitsubishi MK8P Kinsei 62 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 1,560 hp for take-off, 1,340 hp at 2,100 m and 1,180 hp at 5,800 m, driving a three-blade metal propeller (A6M8).
- Two 7.7 mm Type 97 machine-guns in the upper fuselage decking and two wing-mounted 20 mm Type 99 cannon (A6M1, A6M2, A6M3, A6M5 and A6M5a).
- One 7.7 mm Type 97 machine-gun and one 13.2 mm Type 3 machine-gun in the upper fuselage decking, and two wing-mounted 20 mm Type 99 cannon (A6M5b).
- One 13.2 mm Type 3 machine-gun in the upper fuselage decking, two wing-mounted 13.2 mm Type 3 machine-guns and two wing-mounted 20 mm Type 99 cannon (A6M5c, A6M6c and A6M7).
- Two wing-mounted 13.2 mm Type 3 machine-guns and two wing-mounted 20 mm Type 99 cannon (A6M8).
- Two 7.7 mm Type 97 machine-guns in the upper fuselage decking and two wing-mounted 30 mm cannon (experimental installation on A6M3).
- Two 7.7 mm Type 97 machine-guns in the upper fuselage decking, two wing-mounted 20 mm Type 99 cannon and one fuselage-mounted oblique-firing 20 mm Type 99 cannon (night fighter version of A6M5).
- External stores:
