A detailed study of the Breguet 693, a two-seat twin-engine bomber
carrying a pilot and a machine gun back-to-back.
Derived from the Breguet 690 which was built at the beginning of
1936, the Breguet 693 had its baptism by fire in May 1940: eleven aircraft of
the GBA 1/54 were engaged in the region of Maastricht against the Germans. Unfortunately
the ground assault tactic utilised proved to be disastrous, rendering the
aircraft particularly vulnerable and ten among them, decimated by the flak,
never returned.
The Breguet 693, a two-seat twin-engine bomber carrying a pilot and a
machine gun back-to-back, was also one of the first French aircraft to be
equipped with radio communication.
Like many units however, the assault groups were eventually pulled
out of North Africa, and due the German
occupation, this particular model saw no other future developments.
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