

DeHavilland Mosquito:

The Mosquito was an excellent aircraft that almost wasn't.  It was
developed by the DeH company in late 1938 as a private venture, but
the British Air Ministry showed no interest until 1940, when it was
reluctantly ordered as a fast reconnaisance aircraft.  As it turned
out, the "Mossie" was adaptable to many different roles, excelling
at all of them.  Nearly 8000 were built, of many different types. 
The most important of these as far as the Bomber Offensive was
concerned were the FB.6 day/night fighter-bomber/intruder (2584
built - more than all other models), and the NF.17 night fighter. 
The FB.6 and its bomber descendents were capable of carrying a
fairly heavy bomb load over long distances and with great safety,
flying at a maximum speed of380mph. It was armed with 4 20mm cannon
(300rpg) and 4 .303 Browning MGs (500rpg), plus a wide variety of
bombs.  The NF.17 was an outstanding machine, proving deadly to its
German counterparts when the RAF finally had enough of them to send
over Germany with its bombers.  With a top speed of 410mph and
excellent maneuverability, it was truly a war-winning aircraft. It
was armed with 4 20mm cannon (500rpg), and the option to carry 2
500-lb. bombs on intruder missions. SWOTN uses the FB.6 mod in a
fairly generic way - by changing the weapons load (and the time
period), you roughly simulate the FB.6, B.9, or B.16 models.  The
NF.17 is used as the basic night fighter, since most later nf
models differed only in avionics and slight engine changes.  The
FB.6 comes equipped with a bombsight <B>, but has no autopilot.

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