Around the same time that Fiat was constructing wooden dogfighting biplanes to send into battle, and the Germans were building overly simplistic jet-powered bomber hunters for teenagers to fly, the ...

Introduced in 1939, the Boulton Paul Defiant was Britain's innovative countermeasure against the German bombers of the London Blitz. This fighter stood out with its rear-mounted turret housing four ...

The Boulton Paul Defiant aircraft was designed and built as a turret fighter, but since it didn’t have any forward-firing guns, it required immense concentration and precise communications skills ...