It was intended to provide the Royal Naval Air Service with an anti-Zeppelin fighter that was also capable of long-range reconnaissance and bombing.

The Avro Pike was a large, three-bay biplane of conventional layout driven by two pusher propellers.

Three open cockpits were provided, the centre one for the pilot, with gunners fore and aft of him.

The Admiralty evaluated this in November 1916, but found that the type was by then obsolete and did not place an order.

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