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Old 10th Feb 2012, 17:09
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The Grumman S2F Tracker was an ASW aircraft, known with affection as the 'Stoof.' The image in the Parliamentary document is of the E1 variant, the 'Stoof with the Roof' which is an AEW aircraft, more a poor man's Sentry rather than Nimrod. It just shows how much the pollies know about ASW.
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