Trumpeter 02405 Mitsubishi A6M2b Model 21 Zero Fighter 三菱 小號手  [TP02405]

The A6M2b Type 21 Zero ended up being the 2nd major production form of this famous WWII aircraft. The very first A6M2 started flight assessment on December 28, 1939. The aircraft's performance exceeded the Navy's most optimistic expectation. Manufacturing of a preliminary solution test batch of A6M2s started, and initial flight trials had been finished in July of 1940. The kind 21 ended up being externally much like the earlier Type 11 but ended up being completely navalised with folding wing tips and a tail hook. On July 21, 1940 the Japanese Navy decided to designate 15 pre-production A6M2s towards 12th Combined Naval Air Corps for combat studies in Asia. In China, the A6M2 entered combat the very first time on August 19, 1940. In combat the Zero turned out to be a formidable adversary to most other modern fighters, and spearheaded the Japanese assaults on Pearl Harbor, the Philippines and most for the other Japanese Pacific conquests. The ultimate air battles battled by the A6M2 were on October 26, 1942 through the Battle of Santa Cruz. After that timing, the A6M2 had been superseded by the A6M3 version of the Reisen, and A6M2s had been relegated to second-line devices and training clothes. Many of these obsolete A6M2s had been cut back to operational status and expended in kamikaze attacks within the last year of war.

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