| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The original Fairey Battle was designed to Air Ministry Specification P.27/32 as a two-seat day bomber, to replace the ageing Hawker Hart and Hind biplane bombers, and to act as an insurance policy in case heavier bombers were banned by the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference.[2] At the time, Britain expected any future war would see France as its enemy and so the distance to Paris was a factor in
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