Originally Posted by
Asturias56
To quote Bill Gunston:-
"It was the outcome of two utterly disparate requirements; one by France that wanted the simplest possible subsonic trainer and light attack aircraft using front line airstrips and the British who wanted an expensive trainer to thunder off 10,000ft runways and reach at least M1.8. ... the result was an aeroplane with 2 tiny engines, and a span 10ft less than a Spitfire that could carry more bombs from the UK to Berlin than a Lancaster and deliver them accurately."
I absolutely loved reading whatever bill Gunston wrote, but he is wrong here! There is no way on earth that a Jaguar could carry 22,000 lbs of bombs to Berlin from the UK, or indeed from anywhere to anywhere...
With wing fuel tanks, an ecm pod and a chaff flare pod and maybe an AIM-9 it could carry precisely TWO 1,000 lb bombs to Berlin.