How good would SHAR be as an Afghan mud mover...?
Just a thought, and I know it always dangerous to resurrect the Sea Harrier topic, but I was pondering this and thought it best to come here for an answer. The current RAF Harrier Fleet has been very overworked on Herric over the last few years, and with Tonka's deployment being delayed even more I was wondering, if we had kept the SHAR FA2's instead of binning them, how useful would they be?
Could the Naval Strike wing have used them in Afghan, to take some of the burden off the GR7/9's or would their ground attack capability be so much less as to be not really worth it? I mean, their rough airstrip capable, have a decent enough payload, can carry rockets and dumb bombs - you'd miss precision guided weapons, mind