The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.21 was a project submitted by Armstrong Whitworth for the F.7/30 air ministry's specification that was eventually won by the Gloster Gladiator.
The design was a monocoque monoplane made in steel tube (something not very common for those days). It featured also a retractable landing gear, feature that was neither common for the early 1930s.
It was going to be armed with two 0.303 Vickers machine guns and it was expected that it could carry four small bombs under the wings. It would've been powered by the failed Armstrong Siddeley Hyena engine.
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