The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was a German single-seat fighter/fighter bomber aircraft of the Second World War, first flying in 1938 and the first intact specimen being captured in Britain in 1942. The Fw 190D-9 was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of metal construction powered by a 1776 hp Junkers Jumo 213A-1 12-cylinder inverted-Vee piston engine providing a top speed of approximately 685 kmh and a range of 835 km. The
Fw 190 was armed depending upon version with machine-gun or cannon under each wing, the 190D-9 being armed with two 13 mm MG 131 machine-guns and two 20 mm MG 151 cannons and a 500 kg SC500 bomb. The Fighter-bomber variant (Fw 190-A5/U3) was equipped with wing and fuselage bomb-racks. Research Fw 190
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