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** If any practical real-world aircraft could get away with calling itself a flying tank, the [[Cool Plane/Real Life|A-10]] is it. Also, one even successfully shot down an Iraqi fighter with its [[Gatling Good|Avenger rotary cannon]] during the [[Gulf War]], even though not designed for air-to-air combat.
* Wouldn't be a complete article without mentioning [[wikipedia:Lockheed AC-130|the AC-130]]. With the weapons load including a ''105mm howitzer'' it's is informally classified as a flying artillery platform. I mean just look at that thing.
* The AC-130 is cool, but similar attempt was done on at least two [https://web.archive.org/web/20131206213200/http://www.stormbirds.net/variants262a1aU4.htm ME262], the Me262 A-1a/U4 variant, with 50mm Anti-tank cannon fitted on its nose. Consider WWII have light tanks with smaller cannons.
* The Boulton Paul Defiant: a WWII RAF fighter/interceptor with a machine gun turret behind the cockpit and no forward armament.<ref>the turret guns ''could'' be triggered by the pilot, with the intention of allowing forward fire as in a standard fighter, but the cockpit was in the way, which forced the guns to elevate by 19 degrees when pointed forward. It would have been difficult to design a gunsight that would handle this, so the pilot ended up without one</ref> The weight of the turret and gunner seriously impacted on the aircraft’s performance compared to other fighters, and it was still vulnerable to attack from beneath or dead ahead. Initially, the Defiant brought down quite a few rather surprised Luftwaffe pilots,<ref>many of whom confused it with the similarly-shaped Hawker Hurricane</ref> but once they knew what they were dealing with, they made mincemeat of it.<ref>The turret fighter concept had worked rather well back in the WWI era, with a number of successful models, particularly the RAF’s Bristol F.2 Fighter, which the Defiant was intended to emulate. However, that was the era of biplanes, open cockpits, top speeds a quarter of those in the WWII era, and rather more forgiving aerodynamics. Which, for instance, allowed the Bristol F.2 to be equipped with both a turret ''and'' a forward machine gun. By the time the practical limitations of the turret fighter in the WWII closed-cockpit arena had become apparent, a number of turreted versions of successful fighters (such as the Mosquito) were in the process of being designed or commissioned. None made it into service.</ref>
* It's a corvette! It's a heli carrier! It's a Landing ship! No it's a [[wikipedia:USS Freedom (LCS-1)|Littoral combat ship!]]
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