martinbayer said:
litzj said:
aemann said:
Just had some info on the "Bomcorde".
It was dreamt up by one Arthur Gibson who appears to be/have been a painter. He knocked up that pic as a what-if, as if Concorde could carry 3 x Blue Steels at 15000lbs apiece and maintain supersonic performance. Launching would have been fun with the trim control system working overtime. However, it was never an official or an industry study.
The only other military application for Concorde was its use to simulate Soviet Backfire bombers in the early 1980s.
GA of "Bomcorde" attached.
If it was tried, armament configuration could not be that way.
Because shock wave or disturbed flow from the missile affect inlet severely, designer should kept weapon inside of the internal bomb-bay.
Space between the engine room is also possible position, but there are landing gears, unfortunately.
Anyway it is interesting
This is exactly why I found the comment of Vega ECM so remarkable - the described arrangement keeps the weapons internal (assuming potential issues with the continuous centre wing structure and weapons deployment/ejection could be sorted out), and this is the only online reference discussing an armed or military Concorde variant that I'm aware of (and I've done a fair amount of searching on that topic) that does not start with some vague variation of "I heard...", but where the author (assuming (s)he is credible) refers to an actual concrete written report that (s)he firsthand found and read in an official database. Any additional insights would be welcome.
Martin
I would love this possible project, however Concorde had serious problem for ‘military conversion’
1. when I saw this in Paris air museum, it has tall landing gear and very high height in order to obtain enough aoa at the ground. But it means that weapon load for internal bay and maintenance are very hard to ground crew.
2. as I talk in previous comment, external pylon for concorde is also not easy. this explains why b58 hustler has bizzare shape compare to concorde
3. age of supersonic bomber without stealth performance was already gone
4. fuselage of concorde is very narrow, it is not easy to integrate bomb bay on this beauty