Blackburn Firebrand
The Blackburn Firebrand was a British single-engine strike fighter for the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy designed during World War II by Blackburn Aircraft. Originally intended to serve as a pure fighter, its unimpressive performance and the allocation of its Napier Sabre piston engine by the Ministry of Aircraft Production for the Hawker Typhoon caused it to be redesigned as a strike fighter to take advantage of its load-carrying capability. Development was slow and the first production aircraft was not delivered until after the end of the war. Only a few hundred were built before it was withdrawn from front-line service in 1953.
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strike fighter
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Fleet Air Arm
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Royal Navy
ORG
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Blackburn Aircraft
ORG
Q127771
fighter
Concept
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Napier Sabre
MISC
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Ministry of Aircraft Production
PER
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Hawker Typhoon
MISC
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Blackburn Firebrand
MISC
1953-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1953
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manufacturer
military branch