The Wildcat was at reality the biggest thing shipboard fighter after the United States joined WWII. The F4F was indeed barrel-shaped, with angular wingtips and rudder and a narrow-track undercarriage. The F4F had been indeed well-armed and dependable, and was in fact a normal shipboard aircraft, probably safer to secure on a carrier deck than on land. The F4F never had a operational rate limitation.
The F4F had hydraulic wing folding,the united states Navy guidelines totaled 1169 F4F-4s. It had changed the F4F-3 by August 1942.