Return of the Lightweight Fighter

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The Mitsubishi Zero lightweight dogfighter was replaced by heavier, expensive aircraft, like the Grumman Hellcat, early in World War II.

Part Two

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By the 1960s, big, heavy fighters with radar guided air-to-air missiles replace outmoded dogfighters; faced with the MiG 21 in Vietnam, the U.S. Air Force gives lightweight fighters a second look.