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Old 21st Oct 2014, 18:26
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Would the TSR2 have been a bit of a one trick pony with no possibility to expand its roles. It struck me whilst walking around the Cosford TSR2 last month that it wasn't going to be easy to upgrade it to new weapons systems or re task it with IR pods etc as it would have been next to impossible to hang anything off the incredibly small wings, and the fuselage didn't have much room for any add ons either.

Is it likely that as radar and weapons systems evolved the TSR2 capability would have been left behind? I realise that to many this idea is heresay but with the way we have hung all manner of additional kit under/over the Harrier, Jaguar, Tornado and Typhoon that wasn't thought of originally, would the TSR2 have been a good airframe to keep up to date?
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