Fiat BRG

The Fiat BRG was an Italian heavy bomber prototype built in the 1930s by Fiat for the Italian Air Force. The letters stand for Bombardiere Rosatelli Gigante, the Giant Rosatelli Bomber, and the aircraft was a three-engine strut-braced high-wing monoplane with a deep slab-sided fuselage, one engine in the nose and two strut-mounted engines between the upper wing and a short stub wing attached to the lower fuselage. It had a single fin and rudder and a wide-track landing gear, the pilot and co-pilot sat in a cabin forward of the wing leading edge, and four machine guns were located in an open dorsal cockpit and a ventral tunnel. After testing in 1931 the prototype was attached to 62 Squadriglia SPB, an experimental heavy bomber squadron. It had a wingspan of 30 m, an empty weight of 6,600 kg and a maximum speed of 240 km/h.