BP Defiant Attacker

[James]

I was thinking 'how could a Defiant be useful in North Africa'? 

A dedicated low-level attack aircraft.... 







As you can see it has retained its turret, but it also now has 4x 20mm cannon in the wings. It's going to be finished in RAF desert colours.

Also noticed it is compulsory to include beer/ale in the photos, so I though I would oblige.   

[GTX]

Looking good!

Also noticed it is compulsory to include beer/ale in the photos, so I though I would oblige.

Not compulsory, though not discouraged either .

Regards,

Greg

[NARSES2]

Always nice to see Defiant's don't get many of them

[Ed S]

Scab some armor plate under the engine and cockpit, and you have the RAF version of a Sturmovic.  Definitely needs some rockets on the wings as well.

Ed

[rickshaw]

Scab some armor plate under the engine and cockpit, and you have the RAF version of a Sturmovic.  Definitely needs some rockets on the wings as well.

Ed

And a much more powerful engine to pull all that around, I think!

[kitnut617]

Scab some armor plate under the engine and cockpit, and you have the RAF version of a Sturmovic.  Definitely needs some rockets on the wings as well.

Ed

And a much more powerful engine to pull all that around, I think!

I was reading an article about the Fairey Gannet and one of the engines mooted for it was the Fairey P.24.  This was an engine with similar configuration to the Napier Sabre only it was stood vertically and each side drove it's own propeller, an example was tested in a Fairey Battle which greatly enhanced it's performance.  The nose area of the Battle is not a lot different to the Defiant' so something like that would work wonders in improving the performance of the Defiant.