Sitting idly at the bench and procrastinating on other builds, I opened the cupboard of shame and saw a Trumpeter Lightning that I had managed to botch somewhat. That led to furthering the thought I had in the Ideas topic for the EE Lightning. A fast recce bird.
Now the Lightning was fast.. now doubt about that, but as (arguably) the worlds best point to point interceptor of its time, it was woefully short on legs. So using it a fast battlefield or tactical recce was limited. Even though a recce pack was produced and sold to the Saudi's
So what if we put in more fuel in the shape of a conformal type tank onto the F6. Not as clunky as the overwing ferry tank arrangement. Ditch the guns in the F6 belly pod for the Recce module and perhaps move to Sidewinders for self defence.
