Blackburn Buccaneer

[finsrin]

For completenes..Blackburn/BAE did offer the Buccaneer as a competitor to the Intruder, with predictable results

USN Buccaneer looks soooooooo right to me.

[GTX_Admin]

I like your thinking.

[GTX_Admin]

I'm seeing a potential forerunner to the JP-233 airfield denial weapon in these pictures.

That recce insert looks like it's made in two parts, so maybe design an anti-airfield weapon insert based on it. Make one section for smaller munitions and the other section for larger ones.

You could mix and match it too. Have two section of the same type so you could have all small or all large munitions carried by an aircraft.

I like your thinking.

[ysi_maniac]

Corsair influence :mellow:  :lol: .



BTW, same scale.

[M.A.D]

I've been engaged in conversation about the British CVA-01 aircraft carrier on another forum. In this conversation many have alluded to the CVA-01 eventually being compatible with F-111B and F-14....
Got me thinking, for the Royal Navy's small aircraft contingency and their seeming want to emulate USN capabilities of FAD at the time, what about a cost-effective modification of Blackburn Buccaneer S.2 fitted out for FAD ?
Gutting it of it's strike role systems/radar etc for that of the following:
Hughes AN/AWG-9 radar [this might necessitate an enlarged radome - reminiscent of the bulbous radome on the F-4K/M]
Four underwing AIM-54 Phoenix AAM's [or two semi-recessed AIM-54 Phoenix AAM's in a modified bomb bay]?
Upgraded Spey turbofan engines with greater thrust.....

Anyone up to doing such a profile?

MAD

[elmayerle]

From my post on the first page of this thread:

Looking to do at least one West German S.51 (S.52 ?) one in MFG1 or MFG2 markings.  SAAF tanks and the booster rocket fit for scramble departures with tanks on the inboard hardpoints and Komoran missiles on the outboard ones.  Adding the RAF bulged weapons bay tank would be an option to be added later."

(Spelling and information corrections added)

[elmayerle]

Buccaneer K.2 with bulged weapons bay and Douglas refueling pod carried internally until needed.  If operating from a land base, install the SAAF booster rocket installation and use the S.51's larger underwing tanks.  Ship-based version would use the standard underwing tanks.  Both versions would have defensive countermeasures, electronic and otherwise, on the outboard pylons.  Markings options could be British or other nations.

I don't know if structure and/or plumbing would allow underwing tanks on the outboard pylons, but this configuration with four such tanks would be impressive.  Of couse, structural and plumbing updates to carry the slipper tanks on all four wing hardponts could yield the Buccaneer KS.3.