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    The Blackburn Roc (company designation B-25) was a naval fighter aircraft designed and produced by the British aviation company Blackburn Aircraft. It...
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    The roc is an enormous legendary bird of prey in the popular mythology of the Middle East. The roc appears in Arab geographies and natural history, popularized...
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    March 1945. The Blackburn Roc was a very similar aircraft developed as a turret fighter, with all its armament in a dorsal turret. The Roc was expected to...
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  • Look up roc, Roc, or ROC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Roc, ROC, or R.O.C. may refer to: Roch (c. 1348 – 1376), Occitan saint called Roc in Catalan...
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    in most directions. The same principle was used in the Royal Navy's Blackburn Roc which was also built by Boulton Paul. In combat, the Defiant was found...
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  • never flew Blackburn Skua (1937) – Company designation B-24. Single-engine, two-seat low-wing monoplane naval fighter/dive bomber Blackburn Roc (1938) –...
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    were used as fighters and bombers. On occasion, the carrier operated Blackburn Roc fighter-bombers (from April 1939 – October 1940) and Fairey Albacore...
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  • observation and navigation, and the Fairey Fulmar and the Fairey Firefly. The Blackburn Roc was a "turret fighter" and the second crewmember operated the turret...
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  • example for carrier landing by RN. Blackburn Roc (FAA) naval turret fighter retired from combat by 1941 Blackburn Skua (FAA) naval fighter/dive bomber...
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  • bomb launched from a swivelling crutch under the centre fuselage. Blackburn Roc The Roc was the turret-armed escort-fighter derived from the Skua, fitted...
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