Originally Posted by
EAP86
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What a/c of that era had anything other than analog?
Nimrod, just a handful of years later had a state of the art digital system. It had a massive 8k of 16bit core storage. While this was in Nimrod about 5 years later it had been in service with the Chieftain tank before that.
IMHO a big problem would have been navigation and bombing accuracy. It would have relied on a side scan radar system which, by definition, would provide a fix at less than real time. Even if the navigation degradation was very small, say 0.2 deg per hour at 15 minute fix frequency the error fix to fix at 1080 kts (600 yards per second) would be over half a mile.