#ground attack

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"Specter Gunship"

[usafphantom2]

At one time, the reconnaissance wing stationed at Marham Air Base (also known as Marhem) included one Canberra squadron and two Tornado GR.Mk 1A squadrons (13th and 11th (AC)).

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[usafphantom7]

Breda BA.65

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[usafphantom4]

Breguet 693, a French twin-engine ground attack aircraft. It was developed as a twin-engine fighter competing with the relatively famous Po-630, but since it was made, this one was adopted as an attack aircraft. Considering the fate of twin-engine fighters developed around this time, it might actually be fortunate. Note that its performance was ( ).

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[usafphantom6]

Winter equipment and paint job on a Su-2 at Budenovka airfield in the cold of 1941, belonging to the 3rd Squadron of the 210th Bomber Aviation Regiment. Photo from the archive of twice Hero of the Soviet Union G.F. Sivkov. 1941.

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[usafphantom-2]

The Mansyū Ki-98, was a Japanese ground-attack aircraft proposed by Mansyū (Manshūkoku Hikōki K.K. - Manchuria Airplane Manufacturing Company Ltd.) during World War II for use by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force.

[usafphantom10]

Ju88C-2b of Oberleutnant Kurt Hermann from 1/NJG2, shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Great Britain on March 10, 1941. Gilze Rijen Air Base.

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UK 1982