Carrying armaments internally maintains the aircraft's stealth and minimizes additional drag.
They claim to be liberating and protecting ethnic Russians, to be doing the bidding of a "legitimate" Ukrainian President who just happens to be in neighboring Russia, and that the masked, mystery soldiers closing down and patrolling airports and securing borders are simply freedom fighters of an entirely unidentifiable origin (even though they speak Russian and carry Russian armaments).
Later models of the Hurricane exploited the steadily increasing power of the Merlin engine to carry heavier armament, so that, though it was superseded as a front-line interceptor by 1941, it remained a capable fighter-bomber.
Designed by the Bavarian Airplane Company in response to a 1934 Luftwaffe specification for a high-performance single-seat fighter, the Bf 109 was, in essence, the smallest airframe that could be wrapped around the most powerful in-line aero engine available and still carry useful armament.
It was also to carry more armament to improve its Air-to-ground weaponry capabilities.
There was debate at the time as to whether the s, laid down in 1909, should carry heavier armament than the 12 /45 caliber Mark 5 gun.
I propose: we, for our part, will declare that our ships bound for Cuba are not carrying any armaments.
He also created the lightly armoured Invincible-type battle cruisers, which carried heavy armaments but relied on speed for their protection.
Colonel Cosby and other officials said the jet, an $18 million F-16C Falcon interceptor that carried no armaments, had taken off with three other fighters for training exercises over the Atlantic.
Barras sailed from Newport on 27 August with 8 ships of the line, 4 frigates, and 18 transports carrying French armaments and siege equipment.
