Bombers typically carried from one to 14 flexible machine guns and/or autocannon as defensive armament, while certain types added fixed offensive guns as well. Night fighters sometimes utilized guns firing upwards as well. In World War II, fighter aircraft carried machine guns and cannons mounted in the wings, engine cowlings, nose, or between the banks of the engine, firing through the propeller spinner. The Airco DH.2 pusher plane had its gun in the front while the engine was in the back, some experimented with mountings on the (side) wing or on the biplane's upper wing (above the cockpit), until by 1916 most fighter aircraft mounted their guns in the forward fuselage using a synchronization gear so that the bullets did not strike the propeller. Seeing a need for offensive fire, forward-firing weapons were devised. Soon, planes were fitted with machine guns with a variety of mountings initially the only guns were carried in the rear cockpit supplying defensive fire (this was employed by two-seat aircraft all through the war). In World War I, aircraft were initially intended for aerial reconnaissance, however some pilots began to carry rifles in case they spotted enemy planes. This is a list of weapons ( aircraft ordnance) carried by aircraft. Further details may exist on the talk page. Please expand the Article to include this information.
This Article is missing information about a significant portion of missiles and bombs in existence.
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