Hi there,
I've been away from this site for almost a year.
I read some where that the a last ditch atempt was to fit the Nimrod with a E-2 or type rotordome and have air-to-air refueling pods carried under the wings.
Has anyone got any drawings or CGI or even built this design?
Many thanks,
Steven :banghead:
Are you thinking of this ?
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php)
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you mean this?
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,19439.90.html (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,19439.90.html)
Thanks,
It's the airbourne early warning AMTI radar picture/drawing.
Just need a nimrod and hawkeye kit. Nearly completed the Br1150 atlantic AEW. Might swap the wings of a P-3 with the Br1150.
:thumbsup:
The proposal was to fit an E-2 radome & avionics into a Nimrod airframe as the Nimrod fuselage was not big enough to accomodate the E-3 avionics.
Did they ever consider lengthening the fuselage?
QuoteDid they ever consider lengthening the fuselage?
No, because the idea was to use existing Nimrod MR.1 airframes.
Thanks Nigel :bow:
Wasn't there a version that had the Hawkeye radome with the tail radome from the ARGUS system? I think I saw one recentley.
One of the schemes for an AEW3 reoplacement with the E-2 rotodome envisaged the Searchwater radar removed and the original Comet nose exposed.
There was a drawing at the time of the competition between the P-3 AEW, E-2 and E-3
Quote from: Mossie on July 19, 2010, 09:13:51 AM
Wasn't there a version that had the Hawkeye radome with the tail radome from the ARGUS system? I think I saw one recentley.
Found it, this one, originally posted by Greg:
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi37.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe68%2FGTwiner%2FArtic%2FGrummanNimrodAEW.jpg&hash=280ed15ce4b0034b41e79365426051d84f4b616a)