Japan : A6M5 Zero
At the beginning of the war, A6M series planes were among the best fighter planes, not only in Japan but also in the world.
However, over time, better Japanese aircraft were needed to effectively counter such enemies as the American F6F Hellcat and the F4U Corsair. The Japanese Navy needed a carrier-based fighter with better speed than the A6Ms could offer. Japan had no engine more powerful than the Sakae 21 (used for the A6M3), so to create the A6M5 Model 52 they had to come up with a number of tricks to coax the best performance they could out of it.
A total of 747 A6M5 model 52s were produced.
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