”Wyvern was first proposed as a "torpedo fighter", mainly used as a daytime fighter and torpedo bomber. The concept itself does not seem more bizarre than the aircraft itself. Obviously, the concept of multi-purpose is very beneficial to carrier based fighters - the number of aircraft that an aircraft carrier can carry is strictly limited, and increasing the function of aircraft is to enhance the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers. Westland's "flying dragon" complied with the trend of using fighter bombers to replace light / medium bombers at that time. At the same time, it is no longer a new thing for fighter planes to carry torpedoes - before that, both Fokker Wolff FW 190a-5/u14 and Blackburn "Torch" fighters had used torpedoes as their main weapons.