Breguet Bre.5

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name=Bre.5, Bre.6, and Bre.12


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type=Escort fighter
manufacturer=Breguet
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first flight=1915
introduced=1916
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primary user= French Army
more users= Royal Naval Air Service
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The Breguet Bre.5 and its derivatives the Bre.6 and Bre.12 were French escort fighter biplanes of World War I.

Design and development

This family was a development and refinement of the escort fighter concept that Breguet had designed to be produced by Michelin as the BUC. Initially intended to carry the same 37 mm Hotchkiss cannon that armed the BUC, the Bre.5 was revised, at the request of the French Army, to carry a .303 Lewis gun fired rearward from atop the biplane's upper wing. A small number of cannon-armed machines were produced from April 1916 onwards and allocated to bomber units. Britain's RNAS operated 35 of these aircraft, 10 purchased from Breguet, and 25 built in the UK by Grahame-White as the G.W.19.

The Bre.6 was an essentially identical machine powered by a Canton-Unné engine, developed in response to fears that production of the Bre.5's Renault engine may have been unable to keep up with demand. It was produced both as an escort fighter, but also as a bomber.

As the Bre.5 reached obsolescence, a number were remanufactured as Bre.12 night fighters and night bombers. The fighter variants carried the 37 mm cannon that was now equipped with a searchlight.

Variants

;Bre.5:Renault-powered version.;;Bre.5Ca.2::Cannon-armed escort fighter version.;;Grahame White G.W.19::British-built version for RNAS with Rolls-Royce Falcon engine.;Bre.6:Canton-Unné-powered version.;;Bre.6B.2::Bomber version.;;Bre.6Ca.2::Cannon-armed escort fighter version.;Bre.12:Bre.5s remanufactured for night fighting;;Bre.12B.2::Night bomber version.;;Bre.12Ca.2:Cannon-armed night fighter version.

Operators

;FRA
*French Army;UK
*Royal Naval Air Service

pecifications (Bre.5Ca.2)

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length m=9.90
length ft=32
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span m=17.50
span ft=57
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height m=3.90
height ft=12
height in=9
wing area sqm=57.7
wing area sqft=621
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empty weight kg=1,347
empty weight lb=2,970
gross weight kg=1,886
gross weight lb=4,158
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eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Renault 12Fb
eng1 kw= 164
eng1 hp= 220
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max speed kmh=136
max speed mph=83
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endurance h= 6
endurance min= 15
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climb rate ms=1.2
climb rate ftmin=236
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armament1=1 × trainable 37 mm Hotchkiss cannon in front cockpit
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