Hawker Typhoon
Hawker Typhoon 1st prototype
Hawker Typhoon Mk.IA
A fighter aircraft with a powerful but unreliable Napier Sabre I engine (1,566 kW - 2,100 hp) that was armed with 12 Browning 7.7 mm caliber machine guns.
Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB
Version in which the machine guns were replaced by 4 Hispano 20 mm caliber cannons. Progressively more powerful and reliable Napier Sabre IIA (1,625 kW - 2,180 hp), Sabre IIB (1,640 kW - 2,200 hp) and Sabre IIC (1,685 kW - 2,260 hp) engines were used. Later aircraft of this version had a drop-shaped cockpit canopy with better rearward visibility, were equipped with slings for 2 x 454 kg bombs or 8 unguided rockets, and were mainly used as fighter-bombers.
Hawker Typhoon FR Mk.IB
A research version that was converted from the Mk.IB machines. The modification consisted of fitting cameras to the fuselage and wings, from which the internal guns were removed.
Hawker Typhoon NF Mk.IB
Night fighter version which was not mass produced, only 1 prototype was created by fitting AI Mk.VI radar to the Mk.IB version machine.
Hawker Typhoon 1st prototype
Hawker Typhoon Mk.IA
A fighter aircraft with a powerful but unreliable Napier Sabre I engine (1,566 kW - 2,100 hp) that was armed with 12 Browning 7.7 mm caliber machine guns.
Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB
Version in which the machine guns were replaced by 4 Hispano 20 mm caliber cannons. Progressively more powerful and reliable Napier Sabre IIA (1,625 kW - 2,180 hp), Sabre IIB (1,640 kW - 2,200 hp) and Sabre IIC (1,685 kW - 2,260 hp) engines were used. Later aircraft of this version had a drop-shaped cockpit canopy with better rearward visibility, were equipped with slings for 2 x 454 kg bombs or 8 unguided rockets, and were mainly used as fighter-bombers.
Hawker Typhoon FR Mk.IB
A research version that was converted from the Mk.IB machines. The modification consisted of fitting cameras to the fuselage and wings, from which the internal guns were removed.
Hawker Typhoon NF Mk.IB
Night fighter version which was not mass produced, only 1 prototype was created by fitting AI Mk.VI radar to the Mk.IB version machine.