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Nightfighter Aircraft
Thanks to radar, the Brits, and pilots - we had aircraft specializing in the art of nightfighting.
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| The Second World War saw the true birth of the nightfighter as a viable battlefield entity. The British excelled at it with their Mosquito design and essentially perfected the use of radar in the task, the German's were forced to contend with it thanks to the Allied night time bombing campaigns and the Americans and Japanese would jump into the fray by war's end. In the end, night fighter history would be made up of names like the de Havilland DH.98 "Mosquito", the Toryu Ki-45 KAIc "Nick", the Messerschmitt BF 110 "Destroyer" and the North American P-61 / F-61 "Black Widow". These designs would spawn a new category of aircraft that would become increasingly more effective and efficient, making them a permanent element of any war planner's toolbox. All models would have several things in common - a multiple person crew, ever-advancing search technology, formidable weaponry for exact kills on incoming enemy bombers and impressive paint schemes to boot. Most every night fighter design would find some level of success throughout the war but be generally outclassed by the dawn of the jet age. By then, jet fighters would take up the mantle and continue to own the night sky eventually developing into their future multi-role counterpart hybrids capable of handling different types of missions utilizing the same airframe and internal technologies to target and defeat night time airborne threats. The night fighter still lives on today in the most modern aircraft available today - just in the multi-role guise. |
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There are a total of 19 Nightfighter aircraft in the Military Factory. |
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