Aircraft Of Foreign Countries

 


France Aircraft

 

Reconnaissance / Observation

 
Type: Dewoitine D.750Sb.3 two/three seat carrier-borne torpedo and reconnaissance bomber prototype.
Max Speed: 222 mph at 4,920 ft.
climb rate of  ft ??? per min.
Service Ceiling: 22,965 ft
Range: 901 miles.
Armament: one fixed and two trainable 0.295-in (7.5-mm) machine guns, and 1,433 lb torpedo or 1,321 lb bombs.
Photo: Musee de Air
The very advanced D.750 could undertake the reconnaissance, torpedo bombing, levelbombing, and smoke laying roles.

 

Type: Dassault-Breguet Etendard IVP single seat carrierborne photo reconnaissance aircraft.
Max Speed: 683 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 19,685 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling: 50,850 ft.
Range: radius 186 miles.
Armament: none
Photo: Coll B. Thouanel
The Etendard IVP differs from the now disappeared Etendard IVM in having cameras (operating though windows under the fuselage and in the nose) in place of operational electronics and inbuilt cannon armament.

 

Type: Dassault-Bregueet Atlantique 2 12 crew maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft.
Max Speed: 402 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate: 2,000 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 30,000 ft.
Range: 5640 miles.
Armament: up to 7,716 lb of disposable stores.
Photo:
The Atlantique 2 is a considerable advance on the Atlantic through its update airframe, new generation of mission electronic, and modern armament carried in the internal bay (two large torpedoes, or eight small torpedoes, or two anti-ship missiles) and on four under wings hard point (four air-to-air-surface missiles.

 
Type: Dassault-Bregute Gardian six crew medium range maritime reconnaissance aircraft.
Max Speed: 541 mph at 30,000 ft.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 45,000 ft.
Range: 2,790 miles.
Armament: Provision under the wing for weapons such as two AM.39 Exocet anti-ship missiles.
Photo: D. R.
This Falcon 20 is based at Villacoublay on the strength of the French air force 57e Escadrille de Calibration "Commercy" for Navaid calibration duties.

 
Type: Salmson 2A.2 two seat observation and reconnaissance aircraft.
Max Speed: 115 mph at 6,560 ft.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 20,505 ft.
Range: endurance 3 hours 0 minutes.
Armament: three 0.303 in 7.7 mm machine guns (one fixed one trainable) and provision for a light bomb load.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
A Salmson 2A.2 in the markings of the SAL 28 squadron. The elegant, dressed up elephant is said to have been inspired by the advertising for Le Nil cigarettes.

 
Type: Potez 63.11 A .3 three seat tactical reconnaissance and army cooperation aircraft.
Max Speed: 264 mph at 16,405 ft.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 27,885 ft.
Range: 932 miles.
Armament: between  three and eleven 0.295 in 7.5 mm machine guns (one, three or seven fixed forward-firing, one or three fixed rearward-firing and one trainable) and four 110 lb bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
The Potez 63.11 remained in the French service after the June 1940 defeat by Germany, and this is revealed as a machine of the Vich French air force by its red and orange markings.

 
Type: Bregute Ber 19A.2 two seat reconnaissance and observation aircraft.
Max Speed: 133 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 23,620 ft.
Range: 497 miles.
Armament: three 0.303 in 7.7 mm machine guns (one fixed and two trainable) and provision for light bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.

This Bre 19A.2 sports the "tete bougnat" (cool man's head) insignia inherited from SAL 19, a celebrated squadron of the First World War.

 
Type: Caudron G.III two seat artillery spotting and reconnaissance aircraft.
Max Speed: 67 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 6,500 ft in 20 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 13,125 ft.
Range: endurance 4 hours 0 seconds.
Armament: usually none, though some aircraft carried an 8 mm 0.303 in or 0.303 in 7.7 mm machine gun and when flown as a single-seater some aircraft carried bombs.
Photo: Salamander
Some G.IIIs remain airworthy, including this example seen at a display of vintage aircraft.

 
Type: Caudron Cau. 6A.2 two seat observation and reconnaissance aircraft.
Max Speed: 90 mph at 6,560 ft.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 14,435 ft.
Range: endurance 3 hours o minutes.
Armament: two trainable 0.303 in 7.7 mm machine guns, and up to 220 lb of bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
The Egyptian scarab  motif on the fuselage side of this Cau.6 identifies this as a machine of Escadrille C-56.

 
Type: Dassault-Breguet Mirage IIR single seat reconnaissance aircraft.
Max Speed: 863 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 36,090 ft in3 minutes o seconds.
Service Ceiling: 55,774 ft.
Range: radius 425 miles on a lo-lo-lo mission.
Armament: two 30 mm cannon and up to 2,998 lb of disposable stores.
Photo: D. R.
This Mirage IIIRS of the Swiss air force sports the markings of Fliegerstaffel 10 the service's sole reconnaissance unit.

 
Type: Maurice Farman M.F.11 Shorthorn two seat observation aircraft and light bomber.
Max Speed: 62 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 12,470 ft.
Range: endurance 3 hours 45 minutes.
Armament: one 8 mm 0.303 in machine guns and
(bomber version) 288 lb of bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
In French service called the "brage" because of the shape of its central nacelle, the M.F.11 was withdrawn from first-line service during 1916 because of its low speed.

 
Type: Potez 25TOE two seat general purpose aircraft.
Max Speed: 129 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 3,280 ft. in 4 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 19,030 ft.
Range: 783 miles.
Armament: three 0.303 in 7.7 mm 0r 7.5 mm 0.295 in machine guns (one fixed and two trainable)
and up to 441 lb of bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
The Potez 25 was built in large numbers with a number of different engines of both the water cooled inline and air cooled radial types. This example , photographed over France in 1939, has a Renault inline engine.

 

 

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