Comparison of F4F Wildcat and A6M Zero employed at the battle.
One interesting note is that the dive bombers had more success than the torpedo trucks. This is due to largely ineffective torpedo design.
This sort of design failure would be repeated again with the early deployment of M-16 (from XM16E1 to m-16a1), the development of the M3 Bradley (Pentagon Wars is an amusing comedy movie of US weapons procurement), the M247 SPAA, to the current teething problems of the f-35 and f-22.
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