TSR2 was designed to a British requirement many years before Tornado, so it had to be larger for the range we wanted and the older technology we wanted to put in it.(cutting edge at the time though!).
Tornado was a German, Italian and British design, so it was a compromise design which incorporated newer technology (smaller) and didn’t have the the range of TSR2 because the Germans would have been fighting on their doorstep.
The UK governments change of mind was due to the fact that they needed a TSR2 type aircraft and Tornado was the politically acceptable solution.
How can midget submarines be superfast? UUVs are the future of course, but they aren’t really much for offensive purposes yet.
Didn’t say in the book, maybe super-cavitating technology.
see this thread
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=30155
Take a look at the Thunder & Lightnings website for TSR2 info http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/tsr2/survivors.html and http://www.tornado-data.com/ for Tornado.
In my opinion TSR2 outclassed Tornado in the deep strike role by a wide margin but probably wouldn’t have been as flexible.
Search Historical Aviation for TSR2 threads too.
Typical lazy speculation by the news media, no thought to the pain and anguish such comments can cause.
I have read a very good book called TOTAL WAR 2006 by Simon Pearson, a theoritical history of a future war, in which 4 carriers are sunk by superfast midget submarines launched from a converted Typhoon submarine.
Sounds more plausable than a air attack.
Try the Gripen website
http://www.gripen.com/index.html
The layout of the second DDH proposal is similar to Australia’s Landing Platform Amphibious class.
That forward facing hanger door must take a lot of punishment in bad weather!
HMAS Kanimbla during exercise Ocean Protector (February 2001)
Looks very useful, heres something similar from the Netherlands
http://www.scheldeshipbuilding.com/schelde%20enforcer.htm
Schelde ENFORCER LPD 17000
Pic of a Apache shot down in Iraq by SA-7
posted by alexz33 http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=30776&page=2&pp=30
Looks like a Longbow Apache, so the MMW radar might mean a mast mounted parachute couldn’t be fitted, but it looks like a airbag system would have helped.
Just realized that this is a pic of a plastic model kit shown on this thread http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=30482 Mr Gatial’s site has great pics of TSR2s, Soviet supersonic bomber projects and German WW2 jets to name but a few. Well worth a look.
Thanks elider
I think its Horizontal Attitude TOL, I just remembered that tail sitter VTOL designs were designated VATOL (Vertical Attitude TOL).
Intakes look familiar?
British Hypersonic Research Aircraft from 50s or 60s
English Electric EAG 3273
http://www.aemann.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
By Josef Gatial
http://www.angelfire.com/sk/gatial/
Avro 730
Excellent website by Adrian Mann.
http://www.aemann.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
Avro 730