On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:32:48 +0100, "Paul J. Adam"
wrote:



Not seen any particularly convincing rationale myself, other than "How
do we keep the ADEN works busy?"

What I find curious is why, when the ADEN 25 fell over, the Harriers
couldn't just shrug, reprogram the gunsight and put the old pods back
on. Failing to maintain a common interface seems _really_ silly,

If the french could manage it with the DEFA 554 one wonders why.

and I'm
really curious as to why an iteration of a revolver cannon is allowed to
be so incompatible with its predecessor. (After all, if ADEN 25 is so
good, why not go for a common interface and hang it off Sea Harrier and
Hawk too?)

There was something exceedingly fishy about that whole process. What spin
was feed to the RAF to forgo factory fitting Harriers with equalisers ?


greg


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