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57mm
Ah yes, the 2250ltr jugs, which imposed even more stringent limits on an already severely limited aircraft. Add the DI of the ALARMs and you'd be in the admiral's barge. On the plus side, however, the RHWR was brilliantly accurate for SEAD.....
That EF-3 has 1500L “Mike” fit tanks on. A little more G, but a little less speed (apparently
).
In that fit, you should be able to fly for around 2 hours or so from being topped off. So, if you used a pre-push tanker expect to go about 400-500nm into bad lands before needing to come back. Of course, if you had to ditch the tanks at the limit of that range and then fight, you might have to step over the side as you got back to base as the engines go quiet
. So in reality I would only expect to go a couple of hundred miles ‘sausage side’ to retain some fighting fuel on task before heading back with div fuel.