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1940
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MAY 2, 1940 401 '' Plight" copyright drawing. The Breguet 691 may be identified by its heavily tapered wings and long engine nacelles which extend aft of the trailing edge. justable gills on the trailing edge is a series of "pepper- box" exhaust outlets, and below each engine is a ducted oil-cooler. Although the Breguet is not normally used by lArmee de I'Air as a fighter it may be of interest to point out that when equipped for fighting it can be armed with two 20 mm. high-velocity Hispano-Suiza shell-guns which fire out through the nose on eachSl( fc, being mounted in such a position that it is possible to change their ammunition drums. In addi- uon, there is a machine gun in the rear cockpit. Alter- native forward armament is one shell-gun and two machine guns. In the ground-attack and bombing conditions the armament is, of course, lighter. Typi- cally this would be one or two fixed rifle-calibre machine guns in the nose and a third on a pillar-type mounting at the rear, with the possibility of fitting a fourth to fire through the floor. The bomber version has provision for eight vertically stowed 110-lb. bombs, or various combinations of smaller bombs for which traps are let into the bottom of the fuselage. Two-way wireless is standardised and a camera can be fitted if required. The pilot is situated over the leading edge and has an unusually good view, while the rear gunner's position, which is provided with a retractable hood, is over the trailing edge. In this latter position the machine gun is arranged to fold down into the top fuselage decking.
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