The Morane P comported 2 variants - the
MoS21, in 1916, with a 110Hp Le-Rhone 9J engine and the
MoS26, in 1917, with the improved 120Hp Le Rhône 9JB. Most were used by the French.
The
Mos21 had a large casserole spinner and the cowling of the N
The
Mos26 had a full circular cowling and no spinner.
The British RFC also purchased no less than 142 MoS21, often replacing the original 110Hp engine by a 80Hp Le Rhone 9C due to a crisis in the delay of spares for the Rhone 110Hp (the French remaining deaf to the pleadings of the British war office - but to tell the truth, they themselves had serious problems with the production of the Le Rhone 9J and this led among other to the introduction of the Nieuport Ni21, here too with a 80Hp engine instead of the 110Hp engine of the Ni-17). This version was designated a posteriori
MoS24 and had a small spinner. (MoS24 and not MoS23 as sometimes written - the MoS23 was an experimental 110Hp design, produced at the request of the RFC with only 2 machines being produced) By the beginning of 1917 all the Mos24 had been withdrawn form service, the supply of 110Hp Le Rhone having been renewed.
Only 10 machines served with the Russians, who called them
Morane IV - they flew in the ranks of Kazakov's 19th squadron.
All their users used them exclusively as fighters. They appear to have been equipped with small spinners.
There is no certitude about the kind of engine they were equipped with (there was a chronic penury of Le Rhone engines in Russia).
BTW Not only the Russians, but also the British used the Morane L and LA also to drop bombs, for instance in an attack on Zeppelin sheds in Brussels in 1916 by 2 LA, and in a successful an air to air bombing against Zeppelin LZ37 on June 7, 1915.)
After ww1 Japan and Brazil used this plane.
Mos21 - the huge spinner was often discarded in service
Mos24 
Mos26- it had very advanced looks
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