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Although the gun provided the Mosquito with yet more anti-shipping firepower for use against U-boats, it required a steady approach run to aim and fire the gun, making its wooden construction an even greater liability, in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire. The gun had a muzzle velocity of 2,950 ft/s (900 m/s) [149] and an excellent range ...
The Mosquito NF XII became the first aircraft to carry the highly effective centimetric radar. Mosquito night fighters continued to operate over Europe until the end of the war with a low casualty rate, in spite of the efforts of the Heinkel He 219-equipped units and Messerschmitt 262 jet fighters which were flown at night by pilots from 10 ...
The M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires 20 mm × 102 mm (0.787 in × 4.016 in) rounds at an extremely high rate (typically 6,000 rounds per minute).
de Havilland Aircraft Museum: On display Built by de Havilland Hatfield as prototype. First Mosquito built and had first flight on 25 November 1940. Owned by W. J. S. Baird of Hatfield from 1946 to 1959. Acquired by de Havilland Museum in 1959. The aircraft is now on display after its £41,000 restoration. [1] A52-1053 Auckland, North Island
Modern European fighter aircraft are usually equipped with the revolver cannon, whereas the United States and to some extent Russia generally favor the Gatling gun. The Gatling gun quickly became the weapon of choice for most air forces. ADEN cannon (UK) [1] 20 mm Becker (Germany) Berezin B-20 (USSR) Berezin BS (USSR) Berezin UB (USSR) 40 mm ...
The Hornet's principal armament was four short-barrelled 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano V cannons, while other typical weapon loads included various rockets and bombs. [20] Fuselage construction was identical to the earlier Mosquito: a balsa wood "pith" sandwiched between plywood sheets which were laid in diagonal panels.
had 4 x 20 mm Hispano-Suiza 804 automatic cannons along with bomb and rocket ordnance. I.Ae.24 Late I.Ae.28 "Super Calquín" Evolved variant of the Calquin with Merlin engines and a look similar to the de Havilland "Mosquito", had a gunner and 4 - 6 x 20 mm cannons. Only a wooden mockup built. Led to the development of the I.Ae. 30 Ñancú.
The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito was a fast twin-engined night fighter aircraft designed by the German aeronautical engineer Kurt Tank and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf. It was unofficially named Moskito due to its similarities with the de Havilland Mosquito (which was also largely made of wood) that were already with the Royal ...