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30mm DEFA 5-53 cannons deliver deliver around 1500 shots per minute. Since very early in its history France was interested by cannon use in fighters as soon as Georges Guynemer asked installation of a 37mm on its SPAD VII, real use beginning with the Hispano Suiza "moteurs canons" (V engine with a cannon) in the thirties. Protruding before the U/C door, the Doppler radar antenna housing for blind and normal low level navigation, transceiver was inside the bay aft cockpit.
