Typhoon
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British fighter-bomber
Key facts
- Type
- Fighter-bomber
- National origin
- United Kingdom
- Manufacturer
- Hawker Aircraft
- Designer
- Sydney Camm
- Built by
- Gloster Aircraft Company
- Primary users
- Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force Royal New Zealand Air Force
- Number built
- 3,317
- Manufactured
- 1941–1945
- Introduction date
- 11 September 1941
- First flight
- 24 February 1940
- Retired
- October 1945
- Developed into
- Hawker Tempest
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Royal Air Force (RAF) Hawker Typhoon being re-armed in July 1944 on a forward airfield in France during Operation Overlord.jpg
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- first flight
- 1940-02-24
- Commons category
- Hawker Typhoon
- Commons gallery
- Hawker Typhoon
- service retirement
- 1945-10-00
- total produced
- 3330
- service entry
- 1941-09-11
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The Hawker Typhoon is a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft. It was intended to be a medium-high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane, but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement.
The Typhoon was originally designed to mount twelve .303 inch (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns and be powered by the latest 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) engines. 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.