Hurricane Mk IIC Light Bomber 100kg is a Soviet Air unit in Steel Division II.
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A single-seat fighter aircraft introduced into the British arsenal in late 1937, the Hawker Hurricane was the workhorse of Allied aviation in the early years of the war. It was a monoplane design using last-generation technology, such as the use of mechanically fastened steel tubes for its frame, with a mixed wood/fabric body and wings (replaced with metal wings in 1939), or older propeller designs. Though less advanced than the all-metal Spitfire, this arrangement made the Hurricane cheaper and easier to manufactue, with damage sustained in air sorties a lot easier to repair. This ruggedness also made it a stable gun platform, and contributed to the distinguished service of the Hurricane on all fronts of the war, especially the Battle of Britain, where it constituted as much as three fifths of the fighter force and could go toe to toe with the powerful Bf 109 fighters.
The Hurricane Mk IIC equipped with new and slightly longer propeller spinner, fully replaced the machine-gun armament with four 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk II cannons, and using a slightly modified wing. The new wings also included a hardpoint for a 500 or 250 lb (230 or 110 kg) bomb and, later in 1941, fuel tanks. By then performance was inferior to the latest German fighters, and the Hurricane changed to the ground-attack role, sometimes referred to as the Hurribomber. The mark also served as a night fighter and intruder with about three quarters converted to fighter bombers.