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Even before Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy had realized that it would be that its existing fighters, the F2A Buffalo and F4F Wildcat, would have difficulty Japanese shipborne fighters, particularly the A6M Zero.
The situation was such that in June 1941, the U.S. Navy placed an order Grumman's Iron Works for the F6F Hellcat, even before the first prototype had flown. prototype had flown. This proved to be the right decision, as the new Grumman's new fighter, although much larger and heavier than the Zero, proved to be the Zero's sworn enemy.
the Zero's sworn enemy, so the Zero's greater firepower, robustness robustness, range and speed of the American fighter more than matched the Zero's agility. Its entry into service was also timely, as the long-awaited F4U Corsair suffered from faulty capacity on the carrier's deck, so that the the Hellcat remained the U.S. Navy's main embarked fighter for the rest of the rest of the Second World War, and established air superiority in the the Pacific.In just two years of war, it destroyed no fewer than 5,271 enemy aircraft out of the 6,477 claimed by American fighters, achieving a fantastic ratio of 19.1:1, fully deserving of the nickname “Ace-Maker”. of “Ace-Maker”. It was certainly the most important Allied airborne fighter of this global conflict.
The Hellcat was also used by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during the war, while in the post-war period it was used by the French Aronavale which used it in Indochina, and in the Uruguayan Navy, The latter used it until 1961.