UK’s P-3 Orion equivalent: https://preview.redd.it/ahjjpky6gxs51.jpg?width=319&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af0a81378712a8f227bcc287a924fac5adce8db9

The Vickers Vanguard MR.1 or the Vickers Type 955 Vanguard MR.1

a british maritime patrol aircraft that never got built for reasons I don’t fully know however from the model I have seen the detail in the model is amazing and I’m putting this plane into Strangereal as North Point’s Maritime Patrol plane and answer to Osea’s P-3 Orion and Yuketobania’s Il-38 May Maritime Patrol planes which serves as ASW and Maritime Patrol after the retirement of the Nimrod MR.1 in 2011 and will serve until P-8 Poseidon enters service to replace it.

Now as its Armament is unknown I to be creative but as there aren’t any external hardpoint all the weapons are internal which would have sixty Sonobouys and either six Mark.46 torpedoes or Mark.50 Barracuda torpedoes or Mark.54 torpedoes in its Anti-Submarine Warfare duties.

The Vanguard MR.1 can carry for Naval blockading Operations can carry twelve Mark.60 CAPTOR Sea Mines while in Anti-Surface Warfare can launch six AGM-84C Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles or AGM-84K SLAM-ER Cruise missiles.

Now if this had been built I could possibly see a Vanguard R.3 which would be a Vanguard MR.2 converted to Signals intelligence for the Royal Air Force.

Vanguard MRA.4 is a Vanguard MR.2 airframe with four new 6200 horsepower AE2100J Turboprops

so what does it look like well’s here my description of that

a white topped and grey bottom Vanguard MR.1 that had a small observation position before the nose gear and the wing had four 5730 horsepower RB.109 Tyne mark.515 four bladed turboprops and a star safire 2 camera whilst the tail had an ESM module mounted on it and an magnetic anomaly detector fixed to the tail cone.

The Vanguard MR.2 is a Vanguard MR.1 airframe with newer avionics and Yellow Gate ESM pods mounted on the wingtips.

credit to the W879SP2 site for the picture as its an amazing model of an aircraft that never got built but should have been