Fairey Gannet AS_Mk 1 & Mk 4 and trainer versions
Scale Aircraft Modelling|October 2021
World War 2 had proven to Great Britain the importance of keeping her sea lanes safe and open.
Jan Polc
Fairey Gannet AS_Mk 1 & Mk 4 and trainer versions

This was vital for foodstuffs and fuel,to build up Allied forces to retake Europe, and to project power globally by supporting Allied and Commonwealth nations in the war against Japan. German U-boots had been very dangerous to the British war effort and the Battle of the Atlantic, while ultimately successful, was one of the most bitter campaigns of the war. Bombers, converted into antisubmarine aircraft, were efficient weapons and when coupled with the appearance of ASV (Air to Surface Vessel) radar helped secure Allied victory. The war’s end brought widespread reductions of specialist aircraft including anti-submarine types though, and the onset of the Cold War demonstrated that the Fleet Air Arm now lacked ASW or AS (AntiSubmarine Warfare, or Anti-Submarine in the British nomenclature of the time) aircraft in sufficient quantity.

Fairey Aviation had some thirty years experience in the design and construction of sea-going aircraft for the Royal Navy dating back to the Hamble Baby and the Campania, through the long-serving Fairey IIIF and the Flycatcher, to the famous Swordfish. Its Fulmar was the highest-scoring Fleet Air Arm fighter of the war, while the Firefly went on to do great work in the Far-East and Korea. The Seafox was a reliable ship-borne reconnaissance biplane, and the Barracuda eventually became a potent strike aircraft. The Gannet was to be the final card in Fairey´s naval aircraft pack.

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