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killfile wrote:
The P-3 and Nimrod both started out as airliners, so it's perfectly
feasible. I'd be very suprised if Boeing isn't pitching a 'bomb truck'
civil-based aircraft to the Pentagon at the moment.

Matt

"Mycroft" david wrote in message
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According to the Financial Times Airbus want to expand further into the
military field, they have even done studies on how they could produce
bombers based on their civil aircraft.

IIRC there was also consideration given to military variants - bombers
- of both VC-10 and Concorde, and back in the prehistory of jet airliners
there was one (IIRC) Avro Ashton which got under-wing bomb panniers.
NO idea if that was purely as a trials testbed for bomb sights for the
V-bomber fleet or whether it was actually in the frame as a second-
line fallback if the most conservative of the V-bombers (Vickers
Valiant)and the first-line backup (the Short Sperrin) both ran
into development problems.

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