#heavy fighter

[sca-nerd]

I seized the castle. It's mine now.

[usafphantom10]

Messerschmitt Bf 110 during maintenance.

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[m3dieval]

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[usafphantom-2]

Defective Japanese Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu (Ki-45 Toryu, two-seat fighter, Army Type 2) fighters captured by American forces at Clark Field. The Allies codenamed the Ki-45 "Nick." 1945.

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[usafphantom4]

French aircraft – Potez 631 heavy fighters and Bloch MB.210 medium bombers – undergoing major repairs in the summer and fall of 1940 after the capitulation of France. 1940

After the capitulation, 112 Potez 631s remained in the unoccupied zone. A small number of these aircraft also made it to North Africa.

The Germans allowed two P.631 night fighter squadrons—ECN1/13 and ECN3/13 (actually the former ECN4/13)—to remain stationed in Nîmes. In June 1941, ECN3/13 was transferred to Gabes in Tunisia.

As of November 1, 1941, the Vichy government's air force had 82 Potez 631s.

Some Bloch MB.210s continued to be used by the Vichy government's air force, primarily in the colonies. Moreover, some of them again saw combat, this time against their former allies—the British.

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[usafphantom6]

28 January 1943. First flight of the Mikoyan/Gurevich DIS IT (Mig 5). Prototype Soviet heavy fighter of World War II, envisioned to serve primarily in the escort fighter role. Piloted by test pilot V.N. Savkin.

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[usafphantom2]

They may have called the P-47 the “Jug” because it was shaped like a milk bottle, but once you lit that 2,000+ hp R-2800 Double Wasp, it didn’t just remain a Jug - it became a Juggernaut. It could absolutely demolish competition at 30,000 ft. At that altitude, its massive turbo-supercharger turned seven tons of aluminium and steel into a high-speed freight train that most fighters, including the mighty P-51, simply couldn’t catch.

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[usafphantom7]

A Savoia Marchetti S.M. 79 escorted by a German Me. bf 110 heavy fighter over the Mediterranean sky

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