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Old 8th Feb 2011, 16:34
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Originally Posted by Shaggy Sheep Driver
Concorde would have been horredously inefficient at low level with a very short range, it isn't big enough to use as a military transport, so it's difficult to envisage a military role for it.
I think David Gunson covered this one quite well:

"Concorde flies faster than a speeding bullet....which is why they've never made a military version, because when it opened fire it'd shoot itself down"
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