FRENCH BOMBERS

Breguet 693/ 695 family

The Breguet 690 was a three-seat twin-engined fighter produced in
response to a French Air Ministry specification of 1934 but that
entered produced as the Br 691 two-seat attack bomber.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_690.html

The Breguet 691 AB2 was a two-seat attack bomber developed from the Br
690 twin engined fighter
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_691.html

The Breguet 692 AB2 was the designation given to a version of the
Breguet 693 two-seat attack bomber that would have been powered by two
980hp Gnôme & Rhône 14N radial engines.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_692.html

The Breguet 693 AB2 two-seat attack bomber was one of the newer
aircraft designs to be in service with the French Armée de l'Air
during the Battle of France of 1940, and was a re-engined version of
the Br 691
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_693.html

The Breguet 694 was a three-seat reconnaissance aircraft based on the
Br 693 two-seat attack bomber
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_694.html

The Breguet 695 was a version of the Br 691/603 two-seat attack bomber
that was powered by two Pratt & Whitney engines in an attempt to make
up for a shortage of French built aircraft engines during pre-war
attempts to increase the strength of the Armée de l'Air
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_695.html

The Breguet 696 was a two-seat bomber based on the Br 693 two-seat
attack bomber
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_696.html

The Breguet 697 was the designation given to a standard Br 691 attack
bomber given more powerful engines in an attempt to prove that the
aircraft could be used as a heavy fighter
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_697.html

The Breguet 698 Bp2 was the designation given to a design for a dive
bomber based on the Br 691 two-seat attack bomber
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_698.html

The Breguet 699 B2 was the designation given to a bomber version of
the Br 693 two-seat attack bomber that would have been powered by two
825hp Pratt & Whitney SB4G radial engines
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_699.html

The Breguet 700 C2 (Destroyer) was the designation given to a heavy
fighter that would have been based on the Br 691 two-seat attack
bomber, which had itself been developed from the Br 690 twin-engined
fighter
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_breguet_700.html

Bloch MB.210 family

The Bloch MB.200 was a twin-engined day bomber that entered service
with the Armée d l'Air in 1934, and was still in use in small numbers
at the start of the Second World War.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_bloch_mb200.html

The Bloch MB.210 BN5 five-seat night bomber was the most numerous
French bomber at the start of the Second World War, although it was
already in the process of being replaced by more modern aircraft, and
had declined in importance by the start of the Battle of France in May
1940
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_bloch_mb210.html

The Bloch MB.211 BN4 was the designation given to the second prototype
of the Bloch 210 night bomber to reflect a change of engine from air
cooled radials to liquid cooled inline engines.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_bloch_mb211.html

The Bloch MB.212 was the designation given to the prototype Bloch 211
four-seat night bomber after its inline engines were replaced with
Hispano-Suiza air-cooled radial engines during 1936.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_bloch_mb212.html

Amuit 351/ 354

The Amiot 340 was a three-seat twin engined bomber based on the
graceful Amiot 370 racing aircraft and which was the basis for the
Amiot 350 family of bombers
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_340.html

The Amiot 350 was one of a number of variants on the Amiot 351/354
twin-engined bomber that were designed in an attempt to use as many
different engine types as possible.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_350.html

The Amiot 351 was one of only two members of the Amiot 350 family of
twin-engined bombers to actually enter service with the French Armée d
l'Air before the Battle of France
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_351.html

The Amiot 352 was a version of the Amiot 351/354 twin engined bomber
that was to have been powered by two 1,100hp Hispano-Suiza 12Y50/51
liquid-cooled inline engines
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_352.html

The Amiot 353 was a version of the Amiot 351/354 twin engined bomber
that would have been powered by two 1,030hp Rolls-Royce Merlin III
liquid-cooled inline engines.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_353.html

The Amiot 354 was the most advanced member of the Amiot 350 family of
twin engined bombers to enter production
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_354.html

The Amiot 355 was a member of the Amiot 351/354 family that was to be
powered by 1,030hp Gnôme & Rhône 14P engines as part of an attempt to
use as many different types of engines as possible to speed up
production of the entire family of aircraft.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_355.html

The Amiot 356 was a version of the Amiot 351/354 twin engined bomber
that was to be powered by 1,130hp Rolls-Royce Merlin X engines
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_356.html

The Amiot 357 was to have been a high-altitude pressurized bomber
based on the Amiot 350 family of twin engined aircraft.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_357.html

Amiot 143 family

The Amiot 140 was a twin-engined stressed skin bomber that was the
precursor of the Amiot 143, one of the French bombers in service at
the time of the German invasion in 1940
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_140.html

The Amiot 141 was the designation given to a modified version of the
prototype Amiot 140M twin engined bomber that was never built.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_141.html

The Amiot 142 was a prototype for a version of the Amiot 143 twin
engined bomber that would have been powered by liquid cooled engines.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_142.html

The Amiot 143 was one of the most numerous French bombers at the
outbreak of the Second World War, but was virtually obsolete by the
start of the German offensive in the west in May 1940 and the four
bomber groups still equipped with the type suffered heavy losses
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_143.html

The Amiot 144 was designed in an attempt to improve the performance of
the twin engined Amiot 143M bomber.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_144.html

The Amiot 145 was the designation given to a proposed version of the
Amiot 144 that was to be powered by two 1,100hp Hispano-Suiza 14Har
inline engines in an attempt to improve the poor performance of the
Amiot 144
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_145.html

The Amiot 146 was the designation given to a proposed version of the
Amiot 144 that was to be powered by two 1,100hp Gnôme & Rhône 18Lars
radial engines in an attempt to improve the poor performance of the
Amiot 144
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_146.html

The Amiot 147 was the designation given to a proposed version of the
Amiot 144 that was to be powered by two 880hp Hispano-Suiza 12Ydr
inline engines, possibly in an attempt to improve the poor performance
of the Amiot 144
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_amiot_147.html

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