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Old 18th Feb 2020, 12:26
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HAS59
 
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The Porpoise?

I quite like it too, I see it as an ideal replacement for the old Be-12 Mail.
My comment was in part a dig at NATO which seems to have given up on the very useful naming convention for Russian equipment.
Now that the old Air Standardisation Coordinating Committee, which allocated the names, has ceased to exist, it would seem to me that there is scope for something else to replace it.

The BE-200 would have had a two syllable word beginning with M ... in the old days.
'Muppet' was tongue-in-the-cheek.
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