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A Fairey Swordfish carrying a dummy torpedo
A torpedo bomber is a military aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes. Torpedo bombers came into existence just before the First World War almost as soon as aircraft were built that were capable of carrying the weight of a torpedo, and remained an important aircraft type until they were rendered obsolete by anti-ship missiles. They were an important element in many famous Second World War battles, notably the British attack at Taranto, the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck, the sinking of the British battleship HMS Prince Of Wales and the British battlecruiser HMS Repulse and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
strike aircraft (also known as tactical bombers) and torpedobombers are included. Bomber List of bomber aircraft List of military aircraft of the United...
This is a list of torpedobomber aircraft, designed or adapted to carry a primary weapon load of one or more aerial torpedoes in an anti-shipping role...
An aerial torpedo (also known as an airborne torpedo or air-dropped torpedo) is a torpedo launched from a torpedobomber aircraft into the water, after...
standard carrier-based torpedobomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) for much of World War II. It also served as a high level bomber. Although the B5N...
aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedobomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and...
from the A2N B3N - 1933 Navy torpedobomber prototype, lost contract to the Yokosuka B3Y B4N - 1936 Navy torpedobomber prototype, lost contract to the...
Fairey Barracuda An all metal monoplane torpedo-bomber/dive bomber, the Barracude was the last British torpedobomber to enter service during the war, serving...
Beaufort (manufacturer designation Type 152) is a British twin-engined torpedobomber designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, and developed from experience...
bombers and torpedobombers. The dive bombers were as yet unarmed (this was doctrinal: dive bombers were to be armed on the flight deck). The torpedo...
Bomber aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-surface attack, on either ground or sea targets. This list does not include airships...
A bomber is a military combat aircraft that utilizes air-to-ground weaponry to drop bombs, launch torpedoes, or deploy air-launched cruise missiles. Bombs...
The Fairey Swordfish is a biplane torpedobomber, designed by the Fairey Aviation Company. Originating in the early 1930s, the Swordfish, nicknamed "Stringbag"...
Allied reporting name "Grace") was a large and powerful carrier-borne torpedo-dive bomber produced by Aichi Kokuki for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service...
surprise, the Wildcats shot down seven torpedobombers and one dive bomber, and heavily damaged another torpedobomber (which later crashed), at a cost of...
Pastula and radioman Gene Aldrich, flying a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedobomber from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, encounter problems on a patrol...
originally conceived as a heavy fighter variant of the Bristol Beaufort torpedobomber. The Beaufighter proved to be an effective night fighter, which came...
purposes. List of interwar military aircraft List of fighter aircraft List of bomber aircraft List of attack aircraft List of jet aircraft of World War II List...
dual roles, such as fighter-bomber and bomber-reconnaissance aircraft. Carrier aircraft functions. Torpedo and dive bombers attacked enemy warships, transports...
The Fairey Albacore is a single-engine biplane torpedobomber designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Fairey Aviation. It was primarily...
1890-07-26: THE SIMS – EDISON ELECTRIC TORPEDO – THE TORPEDO AT FULL SPEED – SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE TORPEDO "Our New TorpedoBombers to Batter the Axis", Popular...
Italian medium bomber used successfully as a torpedobomber early in World War II Vickers Wellington — most-produced British medium bomber, with a unique...
40 dive bombers, and 29 torpedobombers, they lost 148 pilots and aircrew members, including two dive bomber group leaders, three torpedo squadron leaders...
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