Pusher Prop fighter By Imperator-Zor Watch

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This 1920s era fighter is rather unusual in that it has a pusher prop. It has a rear mounted air cooled radial engine and is armed with a pair of 7.7mm maxim type machine guns. The engine in back design was approved due to concerns of the top brass about the reliability of interupters. It has a top speed of 240 kilometers per hour thanks to its 325kw radial engine. This design was fairly widely produced and was in service for more than two decades. When war broke out 15 years after the first of these machines went into service it saw some action against faster more modern fighters with pressurized cockpits and more than twice the engine power due to the number of units still in service. However it soon found itself religated to the tasks of training, scouting and harassing infantry formations as more modern fighters began to arrive in meaningful numbers.

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