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    88 FLIGHT. JANUARY 24, 1935.

    AIRCRAFT ARMAMENT ABROAD


    Modern Practice
    Reme-zved : The Con-
    tinental Vogue oj the
    " Canon " : Heavily
    Armed Fighters : High-
    powered Engines :
    Sheltered Gunners
    By H F. KING

    A GENERAL increase in the armament of standard


    L
    fighting aircraft may soon be expected. I t is
    common knowledge by this time t h a t the
    single-seater day and night fighters built to
    specification F . 7 / 3 0 of the British Air Ministry have
    four machine guns, or twice as many as are mounted by Excellent fighting view and heavy armament are features
    the machines they are intended to replace. Similar, il not of the Polish P.Z.L. P.24. Note, in this view, the " valley "
    greater, increases in the fire power of single-seaters are for the machine guns
    indicated on the Continent. There, designers are going a
    step farther. They are not merely duplicating machine- this large rise in weight one might sacrifice some of the
    gun armament, but are fitting small-bore canons, the de- forward fixed armament and, in its place, have a rear
    velopment of which has been so carefully fostered in gunner with all his attendant advantages while maintain-
    France. ing a performance substantially similar to that of the
    These amplifications of the attacking power of single- single-seater. The Mureaux 180 C.2 monoplane exhibited
    staters have resulted from the realisation that this type at the Paris Show is an example of a two-seater fighter
    of machine has very definite limitations. If an aircraft derived from a single-seater—in this case the 170 C.I. Both
    can fire only in one direction, designers are saying, then types employ an Hispano-Suiza " X " engine of 650 h.p.—
    fire power must be as heavy as possible compatible with that in the two-seater is an Xcrs moteur canon (i.e., it has
    the retention of the fighter's essential qualities of speed a gun lying between the cylinder banks and firing through
    and manoeuvrability. So they mount additional and larger the centre of a geared airscrew shaft)—and the performance
    guns, and find that their aeroplanes, if they are to compete of the two-seater is little inferior to t h a t of its predecessor.
    with more lightly armed machines, must be correspondingly Perhaps the most formidable-looking single-seater fighter
    higher-powered. Consequently, this increase in armament exhibited at the Paris Show, and probably the most power-
    is one of the reasons that we find Continental single-seaters ful in existence in Europe a t the time, was the Polish
    with Hispano " Y " type engines or Gnome-Rhone K.i4's P.Z.L " Super P.24 " with a 900 h.p. Gnome-Rhone K.14
    of 800 or 900 h . p . engine, two 20 mm. Oerlikon canons, and two machin
    Certain schools of military thought maintain that with guns. The canons are mounted in large fairings at the

    Two French bicanon single-seaters : The Loire 46C.1 and the Dewoitine D.372, with small-bore quick-firers mounted in
    their wings.

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