MAIN FEATURES
Inward retracting, single
wheel main gear units
A-frame arrestor hook
Retractable twin tailwheel
Arrestor hook (lowered)
Attacker FB.Mk.2
(armed and dirty)
2 x 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano
No.3 Mk.V canons with 167
rounds (inboard cannon)
and 145 rounds (outboard
cannon) on each wing
Whip antenna
Radio altimeter antennas
Large 1,136 lt (250 Imp gal,
300 US gal) ventral fuel tank
Gun camera
Avionics: TR.1520 radio, TR.1936
VHF radio, ARI.5307 ZB/X homing
beacon, A.1271 beam approach,
ARI.5679 IFF, ARI.5272, ARI.5284
radio altimeter
Bomb carrying capability
with hardpoint/wiring
under each wing
Provision for 6 x 27 kg (60 lb),
76 mm (3 in) rockets under
each wing in 3 x 2 tiered banks
Provision for RATOG (Rocket Assisted Take-Off
Gear) under each wing root aft of wheel well
Mk.II GGS (Gyro Gun Sight)
Attacker FB.Mk.2
(armed)
Low mounted laminar flow unswept
wing taken from Supermarine Spiteful
with eqi-tapered leading/trailing edge
1.5º incidence and 5º dihedral
Horn balanced
elevators with
trim tabs
Conventional high mounted
tailplanes with 10º dihedral
Arrestor
hook
Trapezoidal tail fin with
horn balanced rudder
Powered
trim tab
Powered trim tab on
starboard aileron
Slotted ailerons
with spring tab
Split trailing
edge flaps
Retractable tail wheel unit
Approach angle indicator
Prominent bullet
fairings to cannon
barrels
Jet pipe angled
upwards
Large fillet to rear fuselage/fin
Rear nav
light
Louvred bypass bleeds to intakes
Wing fold line with
outboard wing section
folding upwards
1 x Rolls-Royce Nene 7
centrifugal turbojet
D-shaped 'elephant ear' intakes
Metal framed rearward
sliding canopy
Spring tab on
port elevator
Pressurised cockpit
Martin Baker Mk.2A ejector seat
Pitot on port wing tip
Attacker FB.Mk.2
(clean)
ATTACKER: 2
ILLUSTRATIONS: © ADRIAN DAVID MOORE 2015 • NO ITEMS MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER
ILLUSTRATIONS: © ADRIAN DAVID MOORE 2015