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Well, this is my first approach to the roof-mounted probe B-52R.
I also take this opportunity to release another camouflage, using current USAF's Gunship Gray.
For now I left the ALQ-122 on its place, I hope there is no interference...

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Very interesting Progress, but I'm not quite sure it "looks" right. I don't know. Maybe the image will grow on me

Does anybody have any more ideas?

The Avro Vulcan B3 idea that was mentioned earlier in this thread... Would that be a "current" aircraft, or would they also be retired by now? And would their appearence change with further modernisations and upgrades, like the Comet/Nimrod, to accept new technology etc?

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Adenandy, thanks for the feedback!
Are you referring to the probe, the RB211 engines, or the whole RAF's B-52 concept?

I was working in a Anglo-french mini-Tu-22M look-alike... but I found some issues during design phase , so I froze it, al least until I have more free time to search for some solutions/other options...

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Hi Progress.

I was talking about the probe. I think the engines look fine, and bearing in mind the US/UK relationship, I could see the British B-52 concept as being very plausable indeed, subject to the anglicanisation of course (British Engines/Electronics/tea maker/etc...). I could even see a British B-1 Lancer, perhaps with British engines etc as well...

But with British Aircraft manufacturing on the wain in the 70s and beyond, I was just trying to picture a "What if..."

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That re-engined BUFF looks awesome!

Sorry that I'm a little late to this discussion (what's almost a year between friends). I've touched on this subject a couple of times when me and my friend ran a campaign of Harpoon and a variety of other games in a pretty-much-present-day-but-different-in-all-the-cool-ways-we-could-think-of setting. I ran Britain during the campaign and was playing a far more talented player who did some interesting things with Russia. In the game I came up with a 3 plane replacement for the 3 pronged bomber force. The Vulcan is upgraded to B3 status and slowly morphs into an extremely competent low level penetration specialist. Indeed when Britain went into Afghan in the late 90's in my campaign the Vulcans where the first thing to see action, hitting armour convoys and military targets as the rest of my force moved into position. The Victor was retained and evolved into a quasi B-52 with the extra hardpoints that were proposed when it was actually in service. It's the high altitude bomb truck that's really useful when that pesky forward army base that your enemy has been using needs to "not there anymore". The third prong was initially intended by me as a replacement for both the previous aircraft but the Vulcan's maritime strike capability (in-setting) and my soft spot for the Victor led me to keep all three. The third prong of the renewed V-Force was called the Valkyrie but was in fact a license built version of the B-1A. As the Russian economy collapsed later in the game it became something of a white elephant as the thing was STUPIDLY expensive to run but upgrades to it's avionics turned it into a truly lethal mach 2 low level strike weapon by the late noughties. I will admit that the Black Buck raids in my campaign were good fun as 400,000lb of bombs hit Stanley runway from a flight of 4 supersonic bombers that only had to refuel twice.