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Old 30th Jan 2012, 10:47
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1 Herc then into the oggin

I was always curious about this when I flew Hercs.
My assumption was that with no more than one refuel, the Herc could get overhead, drop, turn back and hope to find a tanker again.
Couldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get reasonable accuracy with dumb bombs, and not beyond the ingenuity of the boffins to hook up navigation for the ordinance to ensure a DH.

If no tanker available, then descend to a reasonable altitude, drop a boat and some rafts out the back of Albert, then parachute the crew out into the oggin.
One aircraft lost, but crew safe, and bombs on target

Expensive, but far less logistics than is required to get a fuel-hungry jet bomber backwards and forwards to the Falklands.

Enormous fun, as well!
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