High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bristol Aeroplane Company`s Brigand was a British anti-shipping/ground attack/dive bomber attack aircraft developed as a replacement for the Beaufighter. A total of 147 were built, and they served with the Royal Air Force in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency and Kenya until replaced by the de Havilland Hornet in Malaya and the English Electric Canberra jet bomber elsewhere.