Sea Eagle has been retired. We’ve never operated Penguin.
Why do you think the RN would prefer APG-79?
BTW, Sargent Fletcher is owned by the British firm Cobham.

I was under the impression that the Typhoon had test fired the Kongsberg Penguin Mk3 (agm119). After some searching I can only find references to it being offered as a choice for use on Eurofighters intended for Norway. It was later certified on the Norwegian F-16, but no other fighter appears to have had that honor since.

Because it has the software already developed. Its high quality and works for about everything they’d want it to do.

Hamble Aerostructures makes the 1000L supersonic tank. I suggest the standard 1500L and 2000L subsonic droptanks of the RAF. Or they could opt for the 2250L drop tanks nicknamed a ‘Hindenburger’.

The attack occured in an area where sonar is improbable for tracking let alone performing a search. Water depth typically varies between sixty and a hundred feet, with much of it around ninety. Surface conditions were poor for detecting a snorkel or periscope of a minisubmarine. Very likely it was a wire-guided torpedo with a magnetic fuse. A larger submarine would not have felt comfortable in this environment.

If NK ever lost their posture to defend their leader, could SK fly an airborne component in and commando raid the palace? I wonder how far the NK military has to slide before SK could pull a capitulation strike on him with airborne troops in boots. You take out the leadership in the palace and I think the war between NK/SK is for the better part over. Sure, the NK military might begin action on their own, but how realistic can they do so? Would be an interesting end to a sad SK-NK split. Then again the Chinese would probably send in an airborne force to institute a new leader within 24 hours.

IMHO it’s better to outsmart an old fox rather than to try and catch him. SK needs a way to thwart NK aggression. It would not be wise to escalate the issue with an attack on NK’s military. Rather they should mount a full court press on the world stage. Maybe even demand reparations in world court in front of a global audience, presenting somber portfolios of the slain sailors over and over. Stage week long funeral coverage, give each sailor his own video tribute during primetime. Bleed every bit of publicity out of the incident.

And you’ld have how many on board?

The hangar and aft deck space is the limitation to this kind of ideal. If you had the room for 5-8 Harriers/F-35B then it doesn’t look so bad.

If you could commit to vertical landings then a rail launcher like I proposed would allow you to take a destroyer or frigate and give your Harrier a substantial takeoff boost. Your rails for launching would lay on the outskirts of the ship, eliminating the need for the whole flattop of a carrier. You would be basically a conventional takeoff with a vertical landing platform. You would suffer not having much tarmac space, but your planes could takeoff with a big relative payload.

Like someone pointed out, its one thing to fly. It is quite a task to ‘test’. You have to build conditional plans and test criteria for every bit of the whole flight to make it worthwhile. Sometimes you have to remove test equipment and put in new equipment, depending on the metric and the goal. And you can only carry so much gear before you have to push the criteria to a separate flight. That is much more than just having a group bull**** session and taking a spin in the bird.