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H.75M "Hawk"FighterCurtiss![]()
One "Hawk" 75H was bought by representatives of the Chinese delegation, and then Chiang Kai-shek's wife presented it to General Clair Chenno, who arrived in China to reorganize the military aviation of this state. Following this, the Chinese, waging bloody battles with the Japanese invaders, acquired another 112 serial "Hawks" 75M of a similar design, but with four 7.62-mm machine guns and bomb racks with a total weight of up to 136 kg. In the middle of 1938, the first 30 fighters arrived in China and soon took part in air battles. The role of the Hawk 75M in the war with Japan was extremely insignificant. In the conditions of the enemy's domination in the sky, they suffered heavy losses, and not so much from the impact of Japanese aviation, as through the fault of poorly trained flight personnel. The next version of the simplified "Hawk" was the "Hawk" 75N, built in the amount of 25 machines for Thailand. Compared to the Chinese version, it had more powerful armament, consisting of two synchronous heavy machine guns and two Danish-made Madsen cannons in underwing gondolas. Only 12 Hawks 75N were sent to Thailand, as the US government imposed an arms embargo on the country, fearing its cooperation with Japan. |
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