The Fairey Battle was a light bomber of the Royal Air Force built by Fairey Aviation in the late 1930s. The Battle was powered by a single engine but laden with a three-man crew and bomb load, it was slow, vulnerable and limited in range. Despite this, it was a Battle that claimed the first RAF aerial victory of the Second World War. The Battle was the first operational aircraft to enter service powered by the Rolls Royce Merlin
