@halloweene – The antenna for Spectra is at the back if I’m not mistaken, this is something more akin to a bottle top at the front of the DDM-NG bar and isn’t on all Ms or all Rafales. I’ll show a picture or you’ll probably think I’m mad.

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The box indicates a Hellfire I believe. They were tested successfully on drone targets back in the 1980s. Apparently they even trialled an IIR version.

New Configuration of MHTK Miniature Missile Validated In Flight Test

I wouldn’t even hit eject over place. Must have been a reflex reaction, after which he thought, “ah crap, didn’t mean to do that.”

Anyway, help me understand this.. The combat radius of a Tornado launched from Italy is roughly enough to reach the western part of Ukraine. Even in case of emergency they will never have reached Russia (unless assuming a kamikaze type mission).. What’s the use of free-fall nukes, then?

Well apart from mid-air refuelling, a long long long long time ago… before the wind, before the snow… there was a country, a country I know… called the USSR and its conjoined twin the Warsaw Pact, which existed inside part of that red circle.

If the F-111 would have made a good fighter, the F-14 wouldn’t exist. But fighters usually can bomb fairly well because it’s the simpler of the two disciplines.

P.1154 would have made an interesting choice if it wasn’t cancelled.

But it could if ordered with A2G upgrade.

The Harrier deserves a mention here somewhere too. Rough field and VTOL carrier capability, reasonably good record in air combat and ground attack.