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Old 27th Mar 2017, 07:12
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ORAC
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Not sure that's feasible on a couple of grounds.

Firstly, the DoD said several years back that any nation wanting a buddy-buddy capability would have pay for all development and trials as the US forces had no requirement. As far as I am aware, nobody did.

IIRC I postrd a link here several years ago when, during the F-35B weight reduction programme, LM were given a contract to remove all the pipework given the weapon stations a "wet" capability - so you can hang weapons on them, but not fuel tanks.

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