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The fighter plane that went to war without forward guns

At first glance, the Boulton Paul Defiant looked like a conventional British fighter, but its design hid a radical idea. Instead of forward-firing guns, the aircraft relied entirely on a powered ...
The Defiant was born from a prewar belief that bombers would fly unescorted and slow—an assumption that collapsed the moment Germany launched its attacks. Armed with a powered turret but no ...