Hobby Boss item HB-80242 - 80242 P-51 B - 1/72 scale Propeller Aircrafts Military Series assembly kit
Initial A6M5 �Zero� ended up being build by the Mitsubishi Jukogyo in 1943. It absolutely was developed to fight heavier built & armed Allied fighters which have been knocking the sooner �Zero� out from the sky during 1943. The Nakajima NK1F Sakae 21 engine offered the airplane particularly better performance, and so the armament ended up being undoubtedly changed to 2- 20mm and 2- 13.2mm weapons. These improvements cannot alter having less armor, or the insufficient self-sealing gas tanks. But,despite these shortcomings, over 10,450 was at reality built, utilized through the whole war because other forms of Japanese aircraft proceeded to obtain �teething� dilemmas.
