Originally Posted by
DerDa
Well, that's the thing with statistics if you take them out of context ...
This is about the 'Easter Sunday Raid' on Ceylon.
It is true, that in the first wave 36 Zeros were attacking ... plus more than 140 bombers and dive-bombers.
The first wave caught the British on the ground, thus most of the Hurricanes destroyed were not shot down by Zeros, but bombed on the airfields.
I don't know about the losses of Zeros, but certainly more than one Japanese plane was shot down by flak and later by fighters.
That said, the A6M was definitely superior to the Hurricanes and Fairey Fulmars of the British.
Approx. 50 - 90 km/h faster than those types, much better rate of climb, much better armed with two 20 mm cannon plus two MGs and much more nimble and manoeuvrable.
Sometimes, I still dream of TFS going Pacific.
I know it won't happen but ...
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