Ian wrote:
Not sure it would be feasible to do this with a 767/7E7. When the
Nimrod MRA4 was in planning, one idea was to take an Airbus (can't
remember which model) and give it an internal torpedo etc bay. The
stress calcs weren't very nice, and the cost would be even higher
than its currently going to be. Although I suppose if you were to
build enough, the cost would become manageable....

Airbus ultimately found a more clever solution (at least arguably). Rather
than cutting a hole in the people tube, they proposed a conformal "canoe"
under the fuselage for weapons and some of the sensors (mainly the FLIR
ball, I think).

Doesn't really work for a cruise missile shooter, but it seems viable for
the MPA role.

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