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De Havilland Mosquito Operational History
The de Havilland Mosquito was a British light bomber that served in many roles during and after World War II, the Second World War. Mosquito-equipped squadrons performed medium bomber, Surveillance aircraft, reconnaissance, Ground-attack aircraft, tactical strike, anti-submarine, anti-submarine warfare and shipping attack and night fighter duties, both defensive and offensive. Mosquitos were widely used by the Pathfinder (RAF), RAF Pathfinder Force, which marked targets for night-time strategic bombing. Despite an initially high loss rate due to low-level daylight attack operations, the Mosquito ended the war with the lowest losses of any of the aircraft types in RAF Bomber Command service. Performance On its introduction to service, the aircraft was about as fast as the German fighters that opposed it, particularly the Messerschmitt Bf 109, Bf 109F and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Fw 190A. Although the differential in speed was low, the agility of the Mosquito was often an advanta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a Family (biology), family of small Diptera, flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word ''mosquito'' (formed by ''Musca (fly), mosca'' and diminutive ''-ito'') is Spanish and Portuguese for ''little fly''. Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and specialized, highly elongated, piercing-sucking mouthparts. All mosquitoes drink nectar from flowers; females of some species have in addition adapted to drink blood. The group diversified during the Cretaceous period. Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary biologists view mosquitoes as micropredators, small animals that Parasitism, parasitise larger ones by drinking their blood without immediately killing them. Parasitology, Medical parasitologists view mosquitoes instead as Disease vector, vectors of disease, carrying protozoan parasites or bacterial or virus, viral pathogens from one Host (biology), host to another. The mosquito life cycle cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
