An unusual shot
I haven't seen another picture like this, it was made whilst the Bucc was trialling the Sea Eagle. As you can see it is actually carrying four of them, and to my knowledge other aircraft only ever carried two. It was quite capable of carrying these a long way so even today it would have been a formidable weapon platform in the face of a maritime enemy
It will probably never be even clear or resolved about whether the Buccaneer could have operated for longer than it it did but two facts exist:
1) It had a longer range than the tornado
2) it could carry four sea eagle missiles, the only aircraft to be able to do so
The role it was best at was low level against a capital ship, and operating off a carrier, do you think there is a case for it to be the aircraft to be first deployed on the new carriers....
After all there are no carrier borne aircraft left and the population of the new carriers might not be practical till 2026...
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