G-36A, French Aeronavale, 1940 2024-06-08

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G-36A, French Aeronavale, 1940 - G-36A, French Aeronavale, 1940

Grumman G-36A, hypothetical French Naval Air Service scheme, aircraft carrier "Bearn", July 1940.

France ordered 81 G-36A aircraft, powered by Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 engines and equipped with 6 French 7.5mm Darne machine-guns, the latter to be fitted on arrival in France. By the time of the Armistice, only one aircraft had been completed ready for delivery, coded NXG1. Others would have been available very shortly afterwards, so in keeping with the "what-if" approach of the "Attack in the...

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