The Flycatcher carried two Vickers guns and four small underwing bombs despite being a single-seat fleet fighter. A 20-pound load could be a light anti-personnel weapon for imperial policing or an incendiary device used against junks and shore positions. The same attachment could carry a paint-filled practice bomb that marked a warship during an exercise. That flexibility let a small fighter contribute to attack training and fleet manoeuvres without pretending that the weapon had heavy anti-ship power.
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Flycatcher's small bombs serve policing, incendiary, and exercise roles
A seemingly trivial 20-pound bomb station could support light attack, incendiary work, and paint-marking during fleet exercises.