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The warplanes of the United States and Japan were quickly slaughtered.

However, the battle was not as simple as Ueto had imagined, and he found that the American fighters that used to take out in just a few clicks suddenly became difficult to deal with...... In the past, the Zero Combat could always use its extremely flexible and excellent climbing performance to easily bite the tail of the enemy aircraft, but now the enemy aircraft does not seem to give them this opportunity at all, and even the US fighters that originally followed it during the climb of the Zero War will give up categorically and quickly turn to pursue another Zero Fight.

And when the Zero War finally bit the tail of a US fighter, the US fighter escaped the sight of the Japanese pilots with a dive and roll without exception, which is even applicable to the US bombers and torpedo planes, that is, the Zero War could not even keep up with the US bombers.

This gave both Ueto and the Japanese pilots a sense of strength and nowhere to go...... This kind of powerlessness is manifested in air combat as if there is basically no chance to shoot, even if you barely shoot a few rows of bullets, it is completely blind, and when each other is flying at high speed and the flight trajectory is irregular, the probability of hitting the enemy plane is almost like winning the lottery.

On the other hand, it is also difficult for US military pilots to bite the tail of Japanese fighters under this tactic, which is determined by the flexibility and climb performance of the Zero War.

However, the difference between the US and Japanese militaries is that the bullets used by US fighters are armor-piercing incendiary bombs, and the protective armor and automatic fire protection devices of US fighters are very well done, while Japanese fighters do not even have basic protection in order to reduce weight...... As a result, under the condition that the same small rate of hits and the US military had the advantage of sorties, the shortcomings of zero combat protection and fire prevention were quickly exposed after a long combat time.

First, the two Zeros were hit by stray bullets and caught fire, and the original ignition head did not have much impact on the aircraft. But the problem was that the Japanese planes did not even have basic fire prevention facilities, so they could only watch the fire burn bigger and bigger, and soon they could not control it, and then let out a piercing scream and fell into the sea.

Then another Zero was hit...... The pilot of the Zero War was obviously impatient, he was desperately chasing a fighter plane that was diving, but he didn't realize that there was also a US fighter plane diving behind it. Or he has already found out, but he ignores the danger and continues to pursue the "prey" in front of him.

But due to poor dive performance. Therefore, when the Japanese pilots were biting the tail of the US fighters with difficulty, the US fighters behind them had already fired a row of bullets.

With a terrifying "click" sound, the Japanese pilot found that the wings of the fighter plane were separated from the fuselage as if they had been cut off by a knife, and before he could react, the fuselage had lost its balance and spun in the air, and a few seconds later, the fighter plane fell to the sea and ended the pilot's life.

On the contrary, the US fighters are obviously superior to the Japanese in terms of their protective performance, and they are "fighting at home". Even if some fighters were damaged by the Japanese troops, they would not crash immediately, and they could persist in flying in the direction of Kuah Island, but if they couldn't, the US pilots could also choose to parachute...... This is not far from Kuah Island, as long as the other pilots report their location in the direction of Kuah Island, they will soon be picked up by US ships or submarines.

In fact, this should be said to be one of the main reasons why the Japanese air force is getting weaker and weaker.

At the beginning, the reason why the Japanese army was so powerful in the zero battle was that they all scored a 1:6 battle loss ratio against the American pilots, which was not unrelated to the quality of the pilots.

There are also speculations. If the fighter used by Germany was the Japanese Zero, then the outcome of World War II would have to be rewritten.

But the truth may not be so easy to conclude.

The reason is that the Zero War completely neglected the protection of pilots in order to reduce the characteristics of flexibility and long range.

This may be one of the "bushido spirits" of the Japanese. They advocate that "offense is the best defense", so the Zero fighter only has equipment that is beneficial to the offense, but basically has no protective equipment, not even the pilot's parachute.

For a time in the Pacific theater, the Japanese gave pilots parachutes, but later withdrew them.

One reason is that the Japanese military believes that equipping pilots with parachutes will make pilots take chances and not fight the enemy to the death.

On the other hand, the survival rate of Japanese pilots parachuting is so low that the Japanese military believes that there is no need to sacrifice the precious weight of fighters for such a survival rate. It may be more useful to use this weight to fill it with more gasoline or bullets. What is very puzzling is that the Japanese pilots always like to carry a katana, which is basically useless, but will bring all kinds of trouble, and also has a considerable weight.

The reason why the survival rate of skydiving is so low...... The first is that most Japanese soldiers will not parachute without fighting until the last moment, which is commendable, but they often miss the best time to parachute. More importantly, Japanese fighters were vulnerable. As soon as they were hit by the enemy, they either caught fire in the air, exploded, or disintegrated, and the pilot simply did not have time to parachute.

So, in a way, the Japanese Zero fighter is actually not suitable for parachutes.

However, it is precisely because the Zero fighter overemphasizes its offensive performance and completely neglects the protection of pilots, so over time, a situation will inevitably appear: the pilots have suffered too many casualties and there will be a phenomenon of lack of success.

On the contrary, the U.S. military's initial fighter offensive performance does not seem to be as good as Zero Battle, but the protective performance is not to be said, the planes were beaten down by Zero War one by one, but the pilots did not sacrifice a few, such as the Battle of the East Solomon Sea in history, the U.S. Army lost 17 fighters but only lost 7 pilots.

The loss of aircraft carriers, airplanes, and other equipment can be produced by starting machines or having workers work overtime, but the loss of pilots is irreplaceable, and no matter how advanced the fighter is, if there is no excellent pilot to fly it, it will not be able to achieve victory in the end.

The Japanese military did not see this clearly, so in the middle and late stages of the war, no matter how much they improved the performance of the Zero Operation, they could not match the performance of the American army.

Therefore, the Japanese air force can be said to have zero battles in success and zero battles in defeat.

Because of the zero war, they created the myth of "zero war invincible" and glory again and again in the early days of World War II.

It was also because of the Zero War that they had to end up ramming the US warship with explosives in a plane.

If Germany had used this fighter in World War II, it would not have been able to escape the same fate as Japan.

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