A long time ago, not long after the Falklands war, I read a story in an aviation magazine that, apparently, in the run up to the conflict breaking out (ie, while the expeditionary force was en route to the Falklands), people from the MoD visited several aircraft museums in the UK which had Gannets and were seriously looking into the possibility of taking them out of the museums and putting them back into service, because the expeditionary force was so short of ASW capability.
I'm not speaking from a position of great knowledge re the Gannet-I think they had all been withdrawn by 1982, but someone correct me if I'm wrong. So can anyone corroborate this seemingly incredible story?
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