PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - 7 little weeks of Sadness..... XV109 today
Old 10th Oct 2013, 19:07
  #114 (permalink)  
RetiredBA/BY
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: London
Age: 79
Posts: 547
Received 45 Likes on 17 Posts

Given that the Voyager has roughly 3 x the fuel capacity of a Victor, it is difficult to imagine any potential conflict which would require the aircraft to be operated in the receiver role, given the cost of installation, testing, maintaining proficiency etc.










It is difficult, BUT when I was sitting in a nuclear armed Valiant on QRA and someone had seriously suggested that a V bomber would be used to bomb a tiny British Island in the South Atlantic and need 12 tankers to get it there and back, I think we would have assumed the guy really had flipped under the pressure !
RetiredBA/BY is offline