Greg Hennessy wrote in message . ..

It was a silly NiH decision not to fit uk harriers with a GAU-12 in the 1st
place.

Never mind taking the sensible alternative & reusing the BK-27s which were
allegedly removed from RAF GR1s and replaced with ballast.

IMO the really silly (and extremely expensive) decision was to develop
the 25mm Aden in the first place, in a calibre not used by the
British, when the effectively identical 27mm Mauser was already in
service in the Tornado. It would have been a waste of resources even
if the design had worked...

Tony Williams
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