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The Fairey Swordfish is an aircraft I have a huge soft spot for.

A biplane torpedo bomber, it was also capable of naval mining, dive bombing and a multitude of other roles, as long as said role did not involve enemy fighters in any way, shape or form.

I am thinking it is the obvious rapid response to any German naval buildup, being the ideal aircraft to do night patrols in the channel, both for recon, mining and doing torpedo runs at any German barges silly enough to go across the Channel.

This got me thinking about it's role as a night bomber in an Army Cooperation role - being mostly made of wood and canvas with a relatively small engine, it's got a useful bomb load and later in the war can use rockets.

One of the lessons of the early war is that any unprotected bombers take horrible losses, but that lesson wasnt obvious before the war - and the slow speed, ungainly nature and Great War looks of the Stringbag makes it clearly obvious that it is terribly vulnerable to enemy aircraft.

As an initial step, does anyone have any idea how we can get the Stringbag selected over the Battle ?
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