During the second world war airplanes lifted their role as fighters dominating and controlling the war from the sky. Their role primarily involved long distance attacks on infrastructure and targets that artillery couldn’t reach, as well as providing valuable reconnaissance ability viewing enemy movements and military weakness, hence permitting fast attacks and defense tactics.
Between WWII (1939-1945) countries including Germany, Britain and Japan were capable of generating war winning aircrafts developing new technologies and mechanisms effectively impacting their dominance and power over the war.
July 10 - 1940, marked one of the most significant events of WWII by which German forces invaded Great Britain in order to defeat the RAF. The Battle of Britain illustrated the use of various fighter planes and their effectiveness as a war weapon. Although the Luftwaffe outnumbered the RAF’S having 2500 planes compared to 1200, the British had a geographical home advantage, by which they could re-arm and replace pilots a lot quicker having the resources, one including a radar. A radar created an efficient process for relaying information to and from a pilot from radar stations. The RAF were able to feed off detections of advancing attacks whereas the German’s were left in the dark.
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Qualifying as the fastest airplane in the RAF (654 km/h) with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine the Spitfire served as a single seat fighter, reconnaissance aircraft and operated as an interceptor, in order to block high speed rockets heading towards English territory. As a result of the planes success and impact during WWII, the Spitfire was produced approx. 20,000 times with over 40 variations involving elliptical wing advancements armed with browning machine guns, hispano cannons and additional internal fuel storage as armament