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| | Westland Wyvern |
 | | The Westland Wyvern began life as a 'Torpedo Fighter', intended to operate as daylight fighter and torpedo bomber. |
 | | The Wyvern fitted in the trend that fighter-bombers replaced light and medium bombers, and torpedoes had already been carried by the Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5/U14 and the Blackburn Firebrand. |
 | | The Wyvern began life with specification N.11/44, issued in November 1944; this called for a fighter with a Rolls-Royce Eagle piston engine, but capable of accepting a turboprop; carrier-capable and armed with four 20-mm cannon, eight rockets, and three 450 kg bombs, a 825 kg mine or a 20-in torpedo. |
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