On 28 Jul 2003 00:04:44 -0700, (Tony
Williams) wrote:

Greg Hennessy wrote in message . ..

It was a silly NiH decision not to fit uk harriers with a GAU-12 in the 1st
place.

Never mind taking the sensible alternative & reusing the BK-27s which were
allegedly removed from RAF GR1s and replaced with ballast.

IMO the really silly (and extremely expensive) decision was to develop
the 25mm Aden in the first place, in a calibre not used by the
British, when the effectively identical 27mm Mauser was already in
service in the Tornado. It would have been a waste of resources even
if the design had worked...


One wonders what inducements were given to allow the design to proceed at
public expense in the 1st place. it never ever made any sort of commercial
sense.


Meanwhile harriers over sierra leone had to resort to making fake gun
passes when all out of other options.



greg

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