Seperti Apa Rasanya Hidup di dalam Mitsubishi A6M Zero Saat Perang Dunia 2?

Video from the channel Kopral Gondrong about Mitsubishi A6M Zero, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 15:29. Video type: Documentary.

Indonesian-language documentary from the Kopral Gondrong channel that, narrated in the second person, invites viewers to put themselves in the shoes of a Mitsubishi A6M Zero pilot during World War II. It covers takeoff, long missions over the ocean, and combat, and ends with the kamikaze missions of the war's final stage.

The account starts from the specification the Imperial Japanese Navy published in 1937: long range, speed, agility, and 20 mm cannons. Jiro Horikoshi, of Mitsubishi, resolved the conflict between these requirements by sacrificing weight. He used extra-super duralumin alloy and lightened the structure with lightening holes, giving up pilot armor, a bulletproof windshield, and self-sealing fuel tanks in exchange.

The video describes two 7.7 mm machine guns in the nose and two Type 99 20 mm cannons in the wings, the 14-cylinder Nakajima Sakae engine, a narrow cockpit with good visibility, and missions lasting 6 to 8 hours. It emphasizes the vulnerability of the fuel tanks located in the wing root and the stiffness of the ailerons at high speed. It closes with the Zero's use in 1945 as a suicide aircraft loaded with a 250 kg bomb.