Turret Fighters

.WW2 Weapons: The Dawn of the Turret Fighters p1 - WoW > .

Sleek, agile, powerful and possessing a multitude of guns on the nose and wings – the fighters of World War II have etched themselves a position in history akin to the greatest knights of the medieval world. It is little wonder why, since the image of dogfighting a warplane with an enemy aircraft so captures our imaginations. However, less than ten years before the outbreak of WW2, a small number of aircraft appeared in Britain that offered a whole new way of engaging an enemy aircraft. Instead of battling to get on the tail of an enemy plane to fire their guns, these new fighters would be capable of firing on an enemy plane behind them, to the side, or even below them, for instead of carrying their weapons in the wings or nose, they instead adopted a rotating gun turret behind the pilot.