Analysis of the captured Zero forced the US to uprate the engines on their marine aircraft. I think of the Soviet Aircraft industry as having won the Most Impr

Analysis of the captured Zero forced the US to uprate the engines on their marine aircraft. I think of the Soviet Aircraft industry as having won the Most Improvement Award between 1939 and 1945. Started with aircraft that were hopeless outmatched and by 1945 were producing aircraft that would take a skilled German pilot to defeat. Of which the Germans had fewer and fewer. Also the US was shipping the Soviets a lot of aircraft grade aluminum during the war.