Скачать или смотреть US Pilots Examined A Captured "Zero" Fighter — Found It Sacrificed All Armor For Extreme Agility

For the first six months of the Pacific War, the Japanese A6M "Zero" fighter was an invincible phantom. Allied pilots, flying P-40 Warhawks and F4F Wildcats, faced a machine that could out-turn, out-climb, and out-fight them, creating a myth of Japanese technological supremacy. But on June 4, 1942, a single bullet over Alaska changed the course of the air war forever.

This cinematic documentary reveals the incredible true story of the "Akutan Zero." When Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga crash-landed his pristine Zero on the remote Akutan Island, he inadvertently handed the US Navy its most valuable intelligence prize. We detail the grueling recovery mission and the shocking discoveries made by American engineers. They expected a technological marvel; what they found was an "aeronautical eggshell" that sacrificed all armor, all self-sealing fuel tanks, and all pilot protection for impossible agility.

Join us for Part 1, as US test pilots fly the captured ghost for the first time, confirming its terrifying strengths while discovering the three fatal, hidden flaws that would ultimately doom the Zero and change American dogfighting tactics forever.

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