Bréguet 693

[TwinBoom]

General characteristics

    Crew: two, pilot and rear gunner
    Length: 9.67 m (31 ft 9 in)
    Wingspan: 15.37 m (50 ft 5 in)
    Height: 3.19 m (10 ft 6 in)
    Wing area: 29.2 m² (314 ft²)
    Empty weight: 3,675 kg (8,101 lb)
    Useful load: 5,420 kg (11,949 lb)
    Max takeoff weight: 5,500 kg (12,125 lb)
    Powerplant: 2 × Gnome-Rhône 14M-6/7, 522 kW (700 hp) each

Performance

    Maximum speed: 490 km/h (304 mph)
    Range: 1,350 km (839 mi)
    Service ceiling: 8,500 m (27,885 ft)
    Rate of climb: 9.25 m/s (1,822 ft/min)

Armament

    Guns: 1 × fixed, forward-firing 20 mm Hispano-Suiza cannon
    2 × fixed, forward-firing 7.5 mm (.295 in) MAC 1934 machine guns
    1 × flexible, rearward-firing 7.5 mm (.295 in) MAC 1934 machine gun in rear cockpit
    1 × fixed, rearward-firing 7.5 mm (.295 in) MAC 1934 machine gun in ventral position
    Bombs: 460 kg (1,014 lb)

[Ping]

 

  A mutated and Pregnant Beaufighter.

[gyrene81]

   what is that thing?  

looks like something from a mad max movie...pieced together scraps.

[TwinBoom]

French ground attack fighter. Does everyone think French just saw Luftwaffe and just waived white flags ?
We need diversity plane and country wise not the 1945 fast cannon rides.
Some of us guys like the early/mid-war props

 

[Fish42]

No point Twin. they will have a vote and another LW plane will win.

This plane looks like it could turn pretty well and the fire power is fine for an early bird.

[gyrene81]

you gotta admit, the french made some butt ugly and mostly ineffective aircraft...

ms.406


mb152


d.520 (looks like a modified mig3)



arsenal vg33


amiot 350

[Tyrannis]

10 perkies this will become the new beau-level requested A/C that will generate many whine threads when it's voted out of the poll. 

[Pigslilspaz]

10 perkies this will become the new beau-level requested A/C that will generate many whine threads when it's voted out of the poll. 

nope, my biggest fight for this craft is that it saw action EVERYWHERE. I don't think this flying egg did.

[TwinBoom]

I guess books are a thing of the past

[Noir]

the flying fish 

[Noir]

good read http://aerostories.free.fr/dossiers/AA/Bre693/ google trad should be able to squeeze something from it. That plane was only used to drop delayed (7s) bombs on german convoys, without much success tho...but it looks like the performance was ok for its time 

[titanic3]

How's the ballistic of that 20mm? Not good I assume?

And if it gets added (big IF), it'll be the second aircraft to have a non-forward fixed gun. 

[Karnak]

How's the ballistic of that 20mm? Not good I assume?

And if it gets added (big IF), it'll be the second aircraft to have a non-forward fixed gun.  

It is the same gun as on the Spitfire Mk Vb. 880 meters per second at the muzzle.

[morfiend]

How's the ballistic of that 20mm? Not good I assume?

And if it gets added (big IF), it'll be the second aircraft to have a non-forward fixed gun.  

 The 20 mm is a hispano! a MkI with a 60 round drum but still a hispano. As for the nonforward fixed gun??? where does it say that?

 I'm all for some early French planes,TB I think your right..... No one reads anymore!



    


 Edit: sorry Karnak didnt mean to repeat you.

[titanic3]

    1 × fixed, rearward-firing 7.5 mm (.295 in) MAC 1934 machine gun in ventral position

Probably just dead weight in AH, but a nice mix-up.