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    The Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter was an attempt to produce a fighter aircraft armed with a heavy calibre gun. The Coventry Ordnance Works (COW) 37 mm automatic...
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  • It was tested in several installations and specified for the Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter for attacking bombers. The tests did not yield satisfactory results...
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  • aircraft Westland Interceptor Westland IV and Wessex Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter Westland Wallace Westland PV-3 (Houston-Westland) Westland PV-6 (Houston-Wallace)...
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    Schräge Musik (category Aircraft guns)
    161 nor its competitor, the Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter were ordered, and no more was heard of this use of the aerial COW gun. Similar logic lay behind...
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    40 mm. Both are used in the close air support role. Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter with 37 mm C.O.W. gun mounted to fire upwards Supermarine Spitfire with...
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    MiG-29K, Mikoyan MiG-29M The Morane-Saulnier L became first fighter when fitted with fixed machine gun Unsuccessful tethered trials in 1978 as many as 300 SPAD...
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    The Westland Lysander is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft that was used immediately before and during the...
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    Vickers Type 161 (category 1930s British fighter aircraft)
    COW 37 mm gun Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vickers Type 161. Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter...
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    25 – Fairey Hendon November 27 – Bernard 80 GR Curtiss XP-21 Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter December 22 - Tupolev ANT-6 Polikarpov R-5 with the Soviet Air...
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  • a gun. The Gunfighter(s) or Gunfighter(s) may also refer to: A type of fighter aircraft equipped with guns Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter, 1930 fighter-interceptor...
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  • Kingdom) Westland Belvedere Westland C.29 Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter Westland CL.20 1930s autogyro Westland Dragonfly Westland Dreadnought Westland F.29/27...
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    The Westland Westbury was a British twin-engined fighter prototype of 1926. Designed by Westland Aircraft it never entered service but played a useful...
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  • in turn led to the specification itself, e.g. a two-engined fighter with four machine guns. So for example, OR.40 for a heavy bomber led to Specification...
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    Nazirullah, Shiv Dev Singh, and Om Prakash Sanghi. They obtained four Westland Lysanders from Lahore and completed a move to Kohat by 23 February 1942...
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    experience showed types such as Westland Lysander to be unacceptably vulnerable and it was replaced by faster fighter types for photo-reconnaissance,...
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    Officer Captain F.W. "Gunner" Hill presented his calculation showing that future fighters must carry no fewer than eight machine guns, each capable of...
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  • XP-54 prototype fighter Vultee P-66 Vanguard fighter Waco CG-3 troop glider Waco CG-4 troop glider Waco PT-14 primary trainer Westland Lysander liaison...
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    McKinstry 2007, pp. 152, 153. Niall Corduroy (2017). Whirlwind: Westland's Enigmatic Fighter. Fonthill Media. pp. 35–. GGKEY:RNKZ64PU2TP. Archived from the...
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  • Spitfire fighter. In 1938, both companies were re-organised as Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, and a new 'art deco' headquarters designed by architect C. Howard...
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    Vickers Type 432 (category 1940s British fighter aircraft)
    (7,010 m). When the competing Westland Welkin was ordered into production, the second prototype of the Vickers fighter, the Type 446, was cancelled, before...
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    Northrop P-61 Black Widow (category 1940s United States fighter aircraft)
    military aircraft of the United States The British high altitude fighter, the Westland Welkin had a 70 ft (21 m) wingspan but an all up weight of about...
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    Junkers Ju 388 (category 1940s German fighter aircraft)
    Tachikawa Ki-74 Vickers Type 432 Westland Welkin Sternenbanner announcement of the B-29 in German, comparing it to the B-17 in size C. Vernaleken, M. Handig (2006)...
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  • Vol. XLVIII, no. 1927. 29 November 1945. pp. 588–590. "A New Multi-Gun Fighter: Dagger-Engined Martin-Baker Demonstrated". Flight. Vol. XXXV, no. 1588...
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    432 Westland Whirlwind (fighter) Related lists List of aircraft of World War II List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II List of fighter aircraft...
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    Brewster F2A Buffalo (category 1930s United States fighter aircraft)
    The Brewster F2A Buffalo is an American fighter aircraft which saw service early in World War II. Designed and built by the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation...
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    programs, video games, and other media. Contents History A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References Further reading External links...
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    Hawker Typhoon (category 1940s British fighter aircraft)
    gun and was the prototype of the Typhoon IB series. Specification F.9/37 had been modified to include cannon armament as progress with the Westland Whirlwind...
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    Boulton Paul Defiant (category 1930s British fighter aircraft)
    tasks of flying the aircraft and firing the guns would allow the pilot to concentrate on putting the fighter into the best position for the gunner to engage...
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  • Anticipating Western Fighters". The Drive. Retrieved 25 June 2023. "The Ivan Bohun Brigade showcases fire with the Bohdana self-propelled gun". Militarnyi. Retrieved...
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    army co-operation role with Hawker Hardys, adding Gloster Gauntlets and Westland Lysanders. When hostilities with Italy broke out in June 1940, the squadron...
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