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Buccaneers were primarily tasked from 1966 (after the confrontation with Indonesia ended) with attacking the growing number of Soviet surface ships.As is well known initial Buccaneers were designed to lob a Red Beard nuclear bomb on to a Sverdlov class cruiser.By 1966 they were joined by SSN armed with torpedos (they were supposed to get anti ship missiles but it was not until 1982 that Sub Harpoon was shipped).Ark Royal's Buccaneers had both the new WE177 and the disappointing Martel.ASM.It was not until the late 80s that RAF Bucs and RN SHars got the decent Sea Eagle missile and Nimrods Harpoons.As far as I know Buc strikes never relied on air cover. Soviet ships did not get air cover until Yak36 arrived in the 70s..Suez 1956 was not repeated until the bombing of Port Stanley airport in 1982.
Buccaneers were primarily tasked from 1966 (after the confrontation with Indonesia ended) with attacking the growing number of Soviet surface ships.
As is well known initial Buccaneers were designed to lob a Red Beard nuclear bomb on to a Sverdlov class cruiser.
By 1966 they were joined by SSN armed with torpedos (they were supposed to get anti ship missiles but it was not until 1982 that Sub Harpoon was shipped).
Ark Royal's Buccaneers had both the new WE177 and the disappointing Martel.ASM.
It was not until the late 80s that RAF Bucs and RN SHars got the decent Sea Eagle missile and Nimrods Harpoons.
As far as I know Buc strikes never relied on air cover. Soviet ships did not get air cover until Yak36 arrived in the 70s..
Suez 1956 was not repeated until the bombing of Port Stanley airport in 1982.
