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North American B-25 Mitchell B-25H The definitive gunship: a lighter 75 mm T13E1 cannon and up to fourteen .50 cal machine guns.
Updated: August 26, 2026
North American B-25 Mitchell sheet
1,000 Units built
2,170 km Range History The B-25H refined the gunship concept with a lighter-breech 75 mm T13E1 cannon, four fixed nose machine guns, reinforced dorsal and waist turrets, and in some fits up to fourteen .50 cal machine guns in total. 1,000 were built, used chiefly in the Pacific against Japanese shipping.
Aircraft type Gunship medium bomber Length 16.1 m Wingspan 20.6 m Height 5 m Wing area 57.4 m² Empty weight 8,836 kg MTOW 15,876 kg Top speed 438 km/h at 4,000 m Cruise speed 370 km/h Service ceiling 7,400 m Range 2,170 km Powerplant 2 × Wright R-2600-92 Twin Cyclone Power per engine 1,743 hp Max weapons load 1,361 kg Payload 0 kg Crew 5
Powerplant
Two Wright R-2600-92 Twin Cyclone 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial piston engines, 1300 kW (1700 hp) each.
Armament
Twelve to eighteen 12.7 mm machine guns and a 75 mm T13E1 cannon; racks for eight 127 mm HVAR rockets and up to 1361 kg (3000 lb) of bombs, or one Mark 13 torpedo on ventral shackles.
Cargo capacity
No transport capability: the crew is five and the bay carries ordnance only.