What Military Aircraft Would You Bring Back To Service?
My vote goes to the Gnat.
We have to think of small, cheap and PLENTIFUL aircraft so we can maintain a command of the skies over the UK......
With missile technology being so dominant, all you need is a delivery system loaded with missiles and the agility to out perform any opposition.
Stuff a Pegasus in and you've virtually created a small Harrier - best of both worlds, no runways, fast and nimble and jink out of the way of any incoming...
It IS a dream, innit?
We have to think of small, cheap and PLENTIFUL aircraft so we can maintain a command of the skies over the UK......
With missile technology being so dominant, all you need is a delivery system loaded with missiles and the agility to out perform any opposition.
Stuff a Pegasus in and you've virtually created a small Harrier - best of both worlds, no runways, fast and nimble and jink out of the way of any incoming...
It IS a dream, innit?
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Lots of nostalgia here, but if I may nominate a type that might actually be useful today it would be the S-3 Viking.
90+ airframes sent to the desert with plenty of fatigue life, and a much better tanker than the E/F Super Hornet with the buddy store, and a useful MPA. Save the wear and tear on the Super Hornets and sheds loads more gas to give.
90+ airframes sent to the desert with plenty of fatigue life, and a much better tanker than the E/F Super Hornet with the buddy store, and a useful MPA. Save the wear and tear on the Super Hornets and sheds loads more gas to give.
Lots of nostalgia here, but if I may nominate a type that might actually be useful today it would be the S-3 Viking.
90+ airframes sent to the desert with plenty of fatigue life, and a much better tanker than the E/F Super Hornet with the buddy store, and a useful MPA. Save the wear and tear on the Super Hornets and sheds loads more gas to give.
90+ airframes sent to the desert with plenty of fatigue life, and a much better tanker than the E/F Super Hornet with the buddy store, and a useful MPA. Save the wear and tear on the Super Hornets and sheds loads more gas to give.
I think its a good choice - it worked, it could still work and it would really extend current capabilities
Maybe the harrier gr5/7/9. Even with my rose tinted glasses I still recall clocking on at 1600 and working through to 0700 shift change the next morning on many of those Cold War mean machines.
One day when I was about 5, I saw a 'big'' plane' with '6 engines pointing backwards'.
I ran indoors and told my brother, who was almost old enough to join the ATC.
He hit me saying I was lying; there was no such thing.
(I don't think it landed at Bovingdon)
Vigilante & Hustler. Not that they were in service, but the Mirage 4000 & XB-70 would also be nice
Anything supersonic with 2 or more engines come to think about it!
Anything supersonic with 2 or more engines come to think about it!