When the F4U was introduced by the Americans, it proved to be a fast and deadly fighter immediately. Seeing the capabilities as something needed for Japan, the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) asked one of their top fighter producers, Mitsubishi, to copy the design. Mitsubishi tried giving the job to Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the infamous Zero, but he declined due to it being a copy of someone’s design and not his own, so they gave it to a younger designer. Due to only having pictures and wrecked examples to go off of, he started work on what would be called the A8M Komome. Keeping the inverted gull wing, oil-coolers in the wings, and various other design features, he did have to make a lot of changes, like the way the landing gear folded in, the use of a less powerful Sakai engine with an inferior single stage supercharger, an many other small changes too. The biggest change is the cockpit, being farther forward and given the iconic cage-like bubble canopy, and the Mitsubishi unique way of putting the trigger on the throttle instead of the stick. Due to the late entry and disappointing testing results, mostly the low speed and average maneuvering characteristics, they only made a few before it was decided that the Zero should be the focus of resources and especially the engines. All examples were destroyed, wether in combat, or blown up by bombs in storage, and was never given an allied code name due to the low encounters. (Fictional aircraft and story)