__NOTOC__ The Caudron R.6 was a French

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aircraft of

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. It was a scaled-down version of the Caudron R.4. It eliminated the R.4's nose-gunner and used smaller engines (

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s of 82 kW). Some 750 of these aircraft were built, three times the production of the original R.4 design.

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