The Lockheed Hudson was an American built five-seater reconnaissance bomber of the Second World War used by British coastal command and also other Allied armed forces. The Lockheed Hudson was the military version of the Lockheed Fourteen commercial aeroplane, a mid-wing cantilever monoplane powered by various engines, originally two Wright GR-1820-G102A engines providing a top speed of 440 kmh and was armed with two 0.303 inch calibre Browning machine-guns in the nose, two in a turret on top of the fuselage, two mounted on beam mountings either side of the fuselage and one retractable machine-gun beneath the fuselage. Disposable ordnance of 1400 lb of bombs or depth charges could also be carried in the fuselage below the cabin. A British Coastal Command Hudson was the first aircraft to capture a submarine. Research Hudson
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