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Douglas SBD Dauntless
Nicknamed "Barge" or "Clunk" the SBD also went by the nickname "Slow but Deadly." The SBD was the U.S. Navy's principal dive bomber until 1944. It was underpowered, obsolete, and slow but it might be one of the most influential planes in history.
Carrier-based dive bomber, a development of the Northrop BT. The SBD was a small
aircraft, slow and vulnerable, and already considered obsolete when it entered service
(army version named A-24 Banshee). Nevertheless it
sparheaded the early offensives in the Pacific and served throughout WWII. If anything, it
was an accurate dive-bomber and got ample opportunity to show it. Its largest success was
the destruction of four Japanese carriers in the Battle of Midway.
| General characteristics SBD-5 | |||
| Primary function | Dive bomber | ||
| Power plant | One Wright R-1820-60 radial engine | ||
| Thrust | 1,200 HP | 895 kW | |
| Wingspan | 41.5 ft | 12.66 m | |
| Length | 33.1 ft | 10.09 m | |
| Height | 13.6 ft | 4.14 m | |
| Wingarea | 325 sq ft | 30.19 sq m | |
| Weight | empty | 6,530 lb | 2,963 kg |
| max. | 10,700 lb | 4,854 kg | |
| Speed | 253 mph | 407 km/h | |
| Ceiling | 24,280 ft | 7,400 m | |
| Range | 1,296 miles | 2,085 km | |
| Armament | 2x 12.7mm and 2x 7.7mm machine guns, 1x 725 kg bomb, 2x 45kg bombs. | ||
| Crew | Two | ||
| Date deployed | 1940 | ||
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Jirka Wagner
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