AIRCRAFT BRITAIN SHOULD HAVE HAD

[crudebuteffective]

Martin Baker/AW Cyclone FR1, Malaya 1953

[crudebuteffective]

Royal Marine Westland Iceni AGP1 (Aerial Gun Platform) falklands 1982

armament: 1x low recoil 20pdr gun
                1x 20mm polsten
                2x matra pods
                12x TOW missiles (brought off americans and hastily fitted for 1982 conflict)
             

[PR19_Kit]

That's one BIG gun under the 'dyne's belly and a novel siting for the SNEB pods too! I like it. 

[crudebuteffective]

i think this would take the accolade of largest gun conventionaly fitted to an aircraft beating the A10 and the HS129

[rickshaw]

20 Pdr was 84mm in calibre.  The AC-130E mounted a 105mm.

[The Wooksta!]

One Ju 88 flew - by which I mean staggered into the air - carrying an 88mm  anti tank gun.  There were plans to fit the Ju 288 with a 280mm cannon.

There's something very Freudian with the German obsession with bigger and bigger weapons...

[crudebuteffective]

True the C-130E holds the record for biggest gun mounted an aircraft,

I'll stack the Iceni's claim for the largest forward firing gun operationally used  on a aircraft

I could be a politician with my wording lol

[crudebuteffective]

In Feb 47 a crisis hit the British supersonic flight team, the Miles M 52 had flown at over 700 mph but  the need to cool the engine had reduced the space around the engine for fuel tanks thus reducing the fuel tank capacity, this combined with its high fuel consumption prevented it from flying long enough to reach supersonic speeds.

The team decided to help the aircraft to height by slinging it under a stripped down Lancaster and carry it to 20,000 foot thus saving the fuel required
The mods included removal of all turrets and strengthening the fuselage around the bomb bay to enable the rear of bomb bay roof be taken out and  devising a trapeze type system to lower the AC prior to dropping.

THE BUILD

This started with a text to from one part of crudebuteffective ( son no 1) to another part ( dad) stating that he had found a Czech firm that made a 1:72 M52, in the next hour the text back and forward had ideas for the mothership, chase plane and ground handling equipment.

Santa obviously hacked into our mobiles and we now have the M52 and a Lancaster.

The build is complicated in a way airbus industry would be proud of, because one part of CBE is stationed in south west of England and the other part is at home in the midlands so the Lancaster and M52 will be built in different locations ( to keep the domestic manager happy the Lancaster parts may even be built in different rooms LOL)

LET THE BUILD BEGIN!

[crudebuteffective]

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[The Wooksta!]

That'll be the A&V Resins kit.  Rough is the best word to describe it.  If you're doing it wheels up, you could have started with a 72nd V-2 rocket. 

IIRC, it was a Lancaster B.VI that was going to be the drop ship. 

[KJ_Lesnick]

The OP talked about an Avro Agincourt -- what's that?

[McColm]

Su-27 Sea Flanker, I've got a 1/72 kit in my stash. Britian should have taken up the offer from the Russians whilst waiting for the Eurofighter. They could of had some Mil-24 Hinds.
Then there is the A-40 Mermaid, okay so it wouldn't have replaced the Nimrod outright, but for inshore or as a troop transport/special ops.
The engines and avionics would have been British sourced and even used as an aggressor unit for training purposes.

[PR19_Kit]

If we didn't have the Nimrod MRA4 already in production the A-40 would have made a brilliant replacement for the MR2s. They could even operate them from the Moray Firth just off Kinloss too! 

It's a pity the A-40 looks like going the same way as the Seamaster as no-one wants to buy it.

[McColm]

They could of had the 'Nimrod 2000' package fitted to them, Japan seemed the likely buyer they could have used it for Search and Rescue.
You can buy the Anigrand resin 1/144 AA-4040 Breriev A40 Mermaid for $98, I haven't seen a 1/72 kit. I'm not too sure on what kits to use for a Whiff build although a scratch build might be better.
A Models have a 1/72 water bomber version of the smaller Beriev Be-200, AMUBE200 for  £171.56.

[The Wooksta!]

A snip.  I'll take five.