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| Country:
USA |
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Type: Dive bomber |
| Manufacturer:
Vought |
| Service:
1937 - 1943 |
| First
Flight: 4 January 1936 |
| Production:
170 |
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The Vought SB2U Vindicator (known as the Chesapeake in Royal Navy service) was a carrier-based dive bomber developed for the U.S. Navy in the 1930s, the first monoplane in this role. Obsolescent at the outbreak of World War II, Vindicators still remained in service at the time of the Battle of Midway, but by 1943, all had been withdrawn to training units.
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| TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS ( SB2U-2) |
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General characteristics
- Crew: Two, pilot and gunner
- Length: 34 ft 0 in (10.36 m)
- Wingspan: 42 ft in (12.80 m)
- Height: 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)
- Wing area: 305 ft (28 m)
- Empty weight: 4,713 lb (2,138 kg)
- Loaded weight: 6,379 lb (2,893 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 7,332 lb (3,326 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 x Pratt & Whitney R-1535-96 Twin Wasp Jr radial engine, 825 hp (616 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 251 mph (404 km/h)
- Range: 630 mi (1,014 km)
- Service ceiling 27,500 ft (8,382 m)
- Rate of climb: 1,340 ft/min (6.8 m/s)
- Wing loading: 21 lb/ft (103 kg/m)
- Power/mass: 0.13 hp/lb (0.21 kW/kg)
Armament
- 1 x forward firing . 30 cal machine gun in starboard wing (.50 cal in SB2U-3)
- 1 x .30 cal machine gun in flexible mount for tail gunner (.50 cal in SB2U-3)
- 1 x 1,000 lb (454 kg) or 500 lb (227 kg) bomb
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