Fokker T.V

The Fokker T.V, written T5 in service, was a twin-engine medium bomber and heavy-bomber hunter described as an aerial cruiser, built by Fokker for the Netherlands Air Force. It could carry more than 1,000 kg of bombs and was armed with a movable 20 mm Solothurn S18-350 cannon in the nose. In the early 1930s the Dutch army air arm became interested in the luchtkruiser, or aerial cruiser, concept of a multipurpose aircraft whose main role was intercepting and destroying enemy bomber formations and whose secondary role was long-range bombing, and Colonel P.W. Best proposed in 1935 to cancel procurement of the Fokker D.XXI fighter to release funds for as many as possible. Fokker developed the T.V as a five-seat twin-engined monoplane with a wooden wing and a slab-sided fuselage of mixed construction, a method typical for Fokker but obsolete for an aircraft of its size. Modern for its time, it was outclassed by German aircraft by the invasion of 1940, although it was used with some success.