Files: Defiant v2

The Bolton Paul Defiant is one of the weirdest planes of WW2. It very much looks like a Hurricane (German pilots often missidientified it), but it has not fixed frontal weapons. Instead it has a dorsal 4x .303 MG turret operated by a gunner in a cupola. The cupola was supposed to turn 360º, but it was very cumbersome and slow to deploy the guns over the pilot's cabin, so in action for practical terms, the gunner almost never fired in the frontal arc. In this plane, the firing arc is actually the outer part of the arc, covering sides and rear. We use it with the D deck, removing one of the two close turns for each side to make it worse turner than the Hurri. Climb 5 ceiling 9.