The Hawker-Siddeley HS.1197 Buccaneer or as it would’ve likely been known the Buccaneer S.3.
It was to be a deep modernisation of the Buccaneer S.2 with the ageing duralumin and steel airframe having metal replaced with newer materials including use of carbon composite and titanium material with the main landing gear going from a single wheel configuration to the double wheel main landing gear of the Jaguar whilst its wing pylons were to get improved, the HS.1197 would gain new armament including some new two 30mm ADEN cannons.
But there would have to be weight savings to do all this.
The biggest changes were the replacement of the 11,000ibf Rolls Royce RB.168-1A Spey with newer 11,560ibf Rolls-Royce RB.168-78 Spey Turbofans.
The Avoinics were to get a major upgrade replaced the outdated avionics with newer systems such as a Litton Inertial Navigation System with a Litton Central Digital Computer with a High-Definition Dual-Band Radar with Search, Ground-Mapping and Ground-Attack Modes which used an Optically-match topography map and radar with a Television Sight Display.
In the end I can see why it wasn’t done as to blunt it’s only delaying the inevitable retirement of the Buccaneer
Honestly the model of this aircraft looks very good and a look at what could’ve been the last pure-British Strike Aircraft.
The model’s details of the weapons are quite well done as is the air intake for the Rolls-Royce Spey engines.
In fact I’d say its a very good representation of what the Buccaneer S.3 would have looked like so credit to the model maker whose name i cannot remember sorry
Finally I’d like to wish everyone a happy Easter
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