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The Olympus 593 has about as much commonality with the 200 / 300 series as dogs do with giraffes, so no.

The full story & ultimate dispositions / disposals of the RAF's Neptunes is detailed in the March 1986 edition of Flypast, although as Nomisyrruc says, those not returned for resale had their appointment with the gas axe in Nov 1958. There's no mention of the fate of the AN/APS-20 from those...

That's clearly incorrect - every single aircraft in the fleet, flying eight hours every single day of the year? No. Besides, when it comes to FI, cycles matter far, far more than hours. Plus, you'd be at FL350 and above, not in the turbulent and denser air at FL 'In the weeds'.

No, it wouldn't be possible - primarily as APG-65 isn't in service anywhere until 1983, by which time the South Atlantic foray is over & Blue Vixen is on a development pathway that makes ditching it for the lesser set utterly non - viable. Carriage and 'bring back' weights aren't an issue -...

Ascension works just fine - in fact, it's pretty well perfect. Also, Ascension was not part of the 'Destroyers for bases' deal - which, btw, conferred basing rights by way of a 99 year lease, rather than renouncing sovereignty or precluding the use of British posessions by the UK. Further, the...

Indeed. Although if, as per your original comment, the aim is to prevent interdiction of the Atlantic convoys, you're going to be doing that by covering the GI-UK gap, aren't you? This would be achieved quite nicely by Nimrod and SSK/SSN / surface fleet units which aren't strike carriers. As I...

Possibly. But it wouldn't be the right choice for quite a few reasons - not least being cost and inflexibility. That latter point being particularly important by the time the RAF get their hands on them circa 2005 onwards.

It seems to me that the government ITTL has taken this route almost halving the ADV buy & curtailing the IDS/GR) as a measure of saving costs (which, in reality, it wouldn't - far from it) to fund those extra Hornets (which the RAF need why, exactly??), rather than thinking that using the...

None - which is why it doesn't make sense. See my earlier comments rearding parking carriers off your own coast. As for your point concerning what's happening to accomodate the present day AD requirement ITTL, I have no idea - it's neither explicitly stated nor hinted at. Again, attempting to...

What?? Are you new to the thread, or merely inattentive? Have a look at the 1983 Defence Whitepaper threadmark. Specifically: "An Interceptor version of the Tornado was in development and the RAF had been planning to purchase 180 of these powerful interceptors. The MOD had had a serious look...

Removing a (by then) unsafe / underused asset from service in 2010 is entirely different to making decisions at the height of the cold war which would effectively increase the perceived existential threat to the UK and send a clear message to the Soviet Union. The need for a long range, long...

They wouldn't and nor would any UK government. Building, manning & maintaining two CVs & then parking them in the GI-UK gap is the most expensive, least efficient & least sane solution to failing to procure a land based aircraft with the correct characteristics I can think of. AV-MF would think...

Hmm. I'm going off BAE Warton's own archive & Hansard. Oh well... P.110B didn't happen OTL as a short - sighted government pursued a multi - national solution for ACA as first promulgated in phase 2 of AST-403 from 1978 onwards & was entirely non - commital toward P.110B through late 1982. That...

That's the P.110B mock up from 1981, an outgrowth of the P.106 studies. It was an entirely indigenous design (cockpit wasn't based upon F-17 / F/A-18) & did not 'become' ACA / ECA / EAP - both programmes were concurrent & aimed at fulfilling completely different AST specifications. P.110 was...

No. As already noted, it simply wouldn't be a viable entity for so many reasons, I wouldn't even know where to start. Besides, I don't think there's sufficient tetraethyl lead manufactured globally for the local population to mix with their tea in order to consider such a thing remotely...