Hawker Typhoons at Thorney Island airfield, West Sussex, England. The Hawker Typhoon was a British single-seat fighter-bomber, intended as a medium-high altitude interceptor replacement for the Hawker Hurricane. But when the Luftwaffe brought the new Focke-Wulf Fw 190 into service in 1941, the Typhoon was the only RAF fighter capable of catching it at low altitudes; as a result it secured a new role as a low-altitude interceptor. It became a night-time intruder and long-range fighter and with increased weaponary became one of the Second World War's most successful ground-attack aircraft.
Hawker Typhoons on and above Thorney Island airfield, West Sussex, England. It was a British single-seat fighter-bomber, intended as a medium-high altitude interceptor replacement for the Hawker Hurricane. Its service introduction in mid-1941 was plagued with problems and for several months the aircraft faced a doubtful future. When the Luftwaffe brought the new Focke-Wulf Fw 190 into service in 1941, the Typhoon was the only RAF fighter capable of catching it at low altitudes; as a result it secured a new role as a low-altitude interceptor. The Typhoon became established in roles such as night-time intruder and long-range late 1942 the Typhoon was equipped with bombs, and from late 1943 RP-3 rockets were added to its armoury. With those weapons and its four 20 mm Hispano autocannon, the Typhoon became one of the Second World War's most successful ground-attack aircraft
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