Canberra Night Fighter, any historical data?

[Stan in YUL]

I was wondering if a Canberra with an AI radar was ever worked on.  Nothing I've found so far suggests this configuration was explored.

Thanks in advance.

[Gondor]

Your talking about the EE. P.12 All weather fighter which was designed to carry Red Dean Air-to-Air missiles .

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

.... and has been modelled on here in various forms, and quite frequently too.

[Mossie]

There were more variants too.  Gondor and Kit mentioned the P.12, which would have had AI.18 radar and carried Red Dean or Firestreak.  There was an earlier P.2 drawn up with a blunter nose packing an AI.9c radar and carrying Fireflash and hispanos in a modified bomb bay.  The final P.16 variant was proposed to India with an AI.23 radar - picture a B(I).8 with a T.11 nose (a Javelin style nose with AI-18 is also mentioned.

More info in Chris Gibson's Battle Flight.

[Stan in YUL]

Thanks gents.  What a sight that would have been.  I have a Matchbox PR19 on the shelf of doom (maybe 60% done) that might serve as a basis. 

[PR19_Kit]

I think you'll find that the M'box Canberra is a PR9. There never was a PR19, not a Canberra anyway.

It makes a good basis for Whiffing, but because of the wide chord wing it means it can be fiddly to add bits from the various Airfix Canberras.

[thundereagle1997]

Add 2 cannons crop up the wings add rails place the engines in the fuselage for aerodynamic refinement use area ruling give canard foreplanes use only a2a weapons and replace t-tail with f-15 tail but canted.
30mm cannons
Bubble canopy
Swept wing

[PR19_Kit]

CROP the wings??? 

Do all that lot and you might as well scratchbuild it, there'd be nothing left of the original Canberra.

[Stan in YUL]

I think you'll find that the M'box Canberra is a PR9. There never was a PR19, not a Canberra anyway.

It makes a good basis for Whiffing, but because of the wide chord wing it means it can be fiddly to add bits from the various Airfix Canberras.

My bad!