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The Boulton Paul Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter" without any forward firing guns and served as an interceptor aircraft with the RAF during the Second World War. Often maligned as a failure, it found a niche as a night fighter during the Blitz.

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