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Old 26th Oct 2014, 18:17
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HAS59
 
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B57 Nuclear Bomb

Mr Neptunus Rex sir, while the British atomic weapons may have disappeared from the RAF inventory in the late 60's ...

A brief google discovered this ...

"The B57 could be deployed by most U.S. fighter, bomber and Navy antisubmarine warfare and patrol aircraft (S-3 Viking and P-3 Orion), and by some U.S. Navy helicopters including the SH-3 Sea King. The B57 was also deployed with Canada's CF-104s in Germany, and the Royal Air Force's Nimrod from RAF St Mawgan and RAF Kinloss in the UK and Malta in the Mediterranean."

I seem to recall it being said that it would take a weapon of this type to crack the hull of some of the Titanium hulled boats we used to chase around after.

also,
there were a number of other weapon types available to be carried by Nimrod's but which were not used - like the sea mines, (the name of which escapes me for the moment)
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