Originally Posted by
Octane
No laughing please! Just curious, could there possibly be any military application for concorde? I wasn't thinking of fitting a bomb bay necessarily! More thinking of payload and range at high speed?
Octane
She could carry 100 passengers at mach 2.02 for up to 4.5 hours, so presumably could have been used as a bomber. Certainly no military aeroplane before or since has that speed combined with that range without in-flight refuelling. I do remember seeing, back in the '60s before Concorde flew, an artist's impression of a Conc wearing RAF colours, so someone was thinking of it.
However, by the time she could have been developed as a bomber, the nuclear deterant had been passed to the Navy subs (high altitude aeroplanes being no longer safe from shoot-down), and in-flight refuelling was a regular military practice, so there probably wasn't a military role for her.
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