American Hellcats Had 6 Machine Guns While Japanese Zeros Only Carried 2 Cannons

Two guns vs six. This episode breaks down why the A6M Zero’s Type 99 20 mm cannons lost the war of sustained fire to the F6F Hellcat’s six .50 cal Brownings—linking cockpit reality (Vraciu’s six kills in four minutes) to design philosophy (Horikoshi’s weight-at-all-costs vs Grumman’s survivability), gunnery math, and the industrial engine behind victory. From the Akutan Zero to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and Leyte Gulf, see how self-sealing tanks, the R-2800 Double Wasp, belt-fed reliability, and U.S. pilot training turned volume of fire into dominance.

Keywords: A6M Zero, Mitsubishi Zero, Type 99 cannon, Type 97 machine gun, F6F Hellcat, Browning M2 .50 cal, Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp, Jiro Horikoshi, Minoru Genda, Twelve-Shi (12-Shi) specification, Extra-Super Duralumin, Akutan Zero, VF-16 USS Lexington, Alexander Vraciu, David McCampbell, Saburo Sakai, Tetsuzo Iwamoto, Twelfth Kokutai, 251st Kokutai, Kasumigaura Air Base, Polikarpov I-16, Tupolev SB-2, Fleet Air Gunnery School, Eglin, Anacostia NAS, Task Force 58, Task Force 38, Battle of the Philippine Sea, Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Pacific Theater, WWII naval aviation, self-sealing fuel tanks, belt-fed vs drum-fed, air superiority doctrine, industrial production, U.S. Navy, Imperial Japanese Navy

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