Caproni Vizzola F.6

The Caproni Vizzola F.6 was a World War II-era Italian single-seat, low-wing cantilever fighter with retractable landing gear, of which only two prototypes were built. The F.6M married the fuselage of the F.5 to new metal wings and a German Daimler-Benz DB 605A engine, with an armament planned at four 12.7 mm Breda-SAFAT machine guns; it first flew in September 1941 and was reworked to move its radiator from under the nose to the belly. The F.6Z used the Isotta Fraschini Zeta 24-cylinder X-type engine, flew only in August 1943, and developed 900 kW instead of its rated 1,100 kW. The armistice of 8 September 1943 ended the F.6Z project, and after a collision at Bresso the F.6M project was dropped in favour of the F.7.