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Old 20th Dec 2012, 14:01
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S41 - the D's never went to Desert Storm. The E/F versions had a detuned version of the avionics on the D. There is a great history at this link:

https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=37599

There was a plan to fit the FBs, Ds, Es, and Fs with a common modernized avionics suite in the 1980s, but I believe that the post-Cold War drawdown cut it off before many actual mods had been carried out.
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