Editing Vought SB2U Vindicator (section)

===Royal Navy===
France had placed an order for a further 50 V-156-Fs in March 1940, with delivery planned from March 1941. Following the [[Second Armistice at Compiègne|defeat of France]], this order was taken over by the British government for use by the [[Royal Navy]]'s [[Fleet Air Arm]], who named the aircraft the Chesapeake.<ref name="AE p8">Green and Swanborough 1978, p.8.</ref> The British required several modifications to the Chesapeake, including the additional fuel tank fitted to the SB2U-3,<ref name="AE p8"/> additional armor and heavier forward firing armament, with four rifle caliber machine guns replacing the single forward-firing [[Darne machine gun]] of the French aircraft.<ref name="AE p74">Green and Swanborough 1978, p.74.</ref> Fourteen Chesapeakes were used to equip a reformed [[811 Naval Air Squadron]] on 14 July 1941 at [[RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus)|RNAS Lee-on-Solent]].<ref name="Thetford Navy p340">Thetford 1978, p.340.</ref> The squadron, whose crews referred to the aircraft as the "cheesecake", intended to use them for [[Anti-submarine warfare|anti-submarine]] patrols, and they were earmarked for the [[escort aircraft carrier|escort carrier]] {{HMS|Archer|D78|6}}.<ref>Moran 1978, p. 65</ref>

By the end of October that year, it had been decided that the Chesapeakes were underpowered for the planned duties and would not be able to lift a useful payload from the small escort carriers. Accordingly, they were withdrawn from 811 Squadron in November 1941 for use as training aircraft and the unit was re-equipped with the biplane [[Fairey Swordfish]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-12-01 |title=Historic Aircraft - No Vindication for the Vindicator |url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2014/december/historic-aircraft-no-vindication-vindicator#:~:text=An%20additional%20order%20soon%20was,and%20a%20larger%20horizontal%20tail. |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=U.S. Naval Institute |language=en}}</ref>