cheers folks...
BomberH - the UK F-4's used the US TER's for carrying BL755 and the old SNEB rocket pods, and while i've not seen an subsequnt multi-rocket pod lash up, carrying lots of BL755's was a big thing in the Harrier, Jag and Tornado GR1 force prior to the changover to widespread PGM use, so M/TER fitted a weapon the RAF was using, but it didn't get used as well: i just find that interesting and wondered if there was a actual reason for it...
as an aside, if GR1 had had two MER fitted on the belly pylons, and each filled with 6 BL755, would performance have taken a real hit? obvious its much more draggy than the 4 bomb rack that was fitted at the time, added to the weight of the bombs - is that it, that a GR1 with 12 BL755, tanks, AIM-9L, SkyShadow and Boz pod would have been unflyable?