Ivan, that is a very interesting photo you have there, they were certainly similar but i can not understand how they could be photographed in circumstances similar to that. Once we finished with them in the early 90`s, the C141`s whipped them all to the west.
Mention of the Nimrod R1 weapon system, not sure how that sneaked onto these pages, the aircraft had no offensive weapons, the bomb bay being filled up with other stuff.