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Old 30th Jan 2012, 06:42
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Yellow Sun
 
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How about a modified Nimrod? That might be an interesting thing to speculate on...
The 1000lb bombs and CBUs were intended for anti-shipping use only, there was no intention to employ them in any other way. However, the Nimrod bomb bay was measured to assess the feasibility of carrying LGBs but it got no further than that.

The Nimrod was easily converted to carry freefall bombs - it had been one of it's design parameters. I gather it had dropped PGMs in later times.
I have never heard of that before. I can understand that it may have been mooted but would be very interested to hear more detail of any actual events.

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