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Amiot 351Medium BomberAmiot![]()
In the forward fuselage there is a glazed navigator's cockpit with equipment for aimed bombing, at the level of the propellers, the cockpit, behind it there was a gunner with a turret gun mount and, finally, below, just behind the bomb bay, there was a lower firing point with a radio operator ... Power plant - two Gnome-Rhone 14N 38/39 engines with a capacity of 950 hp each. Differences between prototype and production aircraft included a decrease in wing span (from 23.0 m to 22.83 m) and its area (from 67.5 m & # 178; to 67.0 m & # 178;). The total length, on the contrary, increased by 500 mm - up to 14.5 m. A widened symmetrical canopy was introduced. To increase stability along the longitudinal channel, an increased size of the keel washers was adopted.
Armament. One 20-mm Hispano-Suiza HS-404 cannon in the dorsal turret, two 7.5-mm MAC machine guns. Bombs in the nose and ventral compartments: normal - up to 800 kg of bombs, maximum - 1200 kg. |
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