Handley Page Hampden/Hereford

Medium bomber

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Specifications

Crew: 4 (pilot, navigator/bomb aimer, radio operator/dorsal gunner, ventral gunner)
Length: 53 ft 7 in
Wingspan: 69 ft 2 in
Height: 14 ft 11 in

Powerplant: 2 × Bristol Pegasus XVIII 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines (1,000 hp)

Armament: Guns: 1 × fixed forward firing.303 in (7.7 mm) Mk. II Browning machine gun in nose, 3–5 Vickers K machine guns: one flexibly mounted in the nose, one or two each in dorsal and ventral positions; Bombs: 4000 lb bombload or 1 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo or mines

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