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The Fairey Battle was a light bomber used by Great Britain during World War II.

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  • Fairey Battle
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  • The Fairey Battle was a light bomber used by Great Britain during World War II.
  • The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber built by the Fairey Aviation Company in the late 1930s for the Royal Air Force. The Battle was powered by the same Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine that gave contemporary British fighters high performance; however, the Battle was weighed down with a three-man crew and a bomb load. Despite being a great improvement on the aircraft that preceded it, by the time it saw action it was slow, limited in range and highly vulnerable to both anti-aircraft fire and fighters with its single defensive .303 machine gun.
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loaded weight main
  • 10792.0
max speed more
  • at
Guns
  • ** 1× .303 in Browning machine gun in starboard wing ** 1× .303 in Vickers K machine gun in rear cabin
number of props
  • 1(xsd:integer)
length alt
  • 12.91 m
span main
  • 1645.92
Produced
  • 1937(xsd:integer)
Status
  • 5(xsd:integer)
more performance
  • 246.0
height alt
  • 4.72 m
Introduced
  • June 1937
primary user
Type
type of prop
  • liquid-cooled V12 engine
range alt
  • 870(xsd:integer)
length main
  • 1290.3200000000002
power alt
  • 768.0
area main
  • 422.0
power main
  • 1030.0
bombs
  • ** 4× bombs internally ** of bombs externally
height main
  • 472.44
span alt
  • 16.46 m
range main
  • 1000.0
Manufacturer
  • Fairey Aviation Company
max speed main
  • 257.0
engine (prop)
  • Rolls-Royce Merlin II
climb rate alt
  • 4.7
ceiling main
  • 25000.0
National Origin
  • United Kingdom
empty weight main
  • 6647.0
loaded weight alt
  • 4895.0
area alt
  • 39.2
First Flight
  • 1936-03-10(xsd:date)
more users
max speed alt
  • 223(xsd:integer)
jet or prop?
  • prop
empty weight alt
  • 3015.0
plane or copter?
  • plane
ceiling alt
  • 7,620 m
Retired
  • 1949(xsd:integer)
Crew
  • 3(xsd:integer)
Number Built
  • 2185(xsd:integer)
Designer
ref
  • Fairey Aircraft since 1915
abstract
  • The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber built by the Fairey Aviation Company in the late 1930s for the Royal Air Force. The Battle was powered by the same Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine that gave contemporary British fighters high performance; however, the Battle was weighed down with a three-man crew and a bomb load. Despite being a great improvement on the aircraft that preceded it, by the time it saw action it was slow, limited in range and highly vulnerable to both anti-aircraft fire and fighters with its single defensive .303 machine gun. During the "Phoney War", the Fairey Battle recorded the first RAF aerial victory of the Second World War but by May 1940 was suffering heavy losses of well over 50% per mission. By the end of 1940 the Battle had been withdrawn from combat service and relegated to training units overseas. For such prewar promise, the Battle was one of the most disappointing of all RAF aircraft.
  • The Fairey Battle was a light bomber used by Great Britain during World War II.
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