Aircraft Carriers • Questions about photo-shy STOVL Vikrant (1961) and SHAR's actual payloads

Surely it's my fault, but I couldn't find more than a couple photos of INS Vikrant as modified by 1989, with the ski jump ramp, and BEFORE she was decommissioned.
And none of an FRS51 armed with bombs, on either Vikrant's or Viraat's flight deck.
Also, did it ever got the photo-recce pod that it was supposed to receive?

On the contrary, there's plenty of photos and video footage of the FRS1 (as well as the FA2) armed with a single bomb, during the Balkan conflicts.
But not about the FRS1 armed with three 1,000 lbs bombs, as it's known it happened in the Falklands.
I've seen this one, but it is not evidence of actual use in combat.
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/data/a ... 6bb46b.jpg
In this one, it's three BL755s.
https://navywings.org.uk/wp-content/upl ... ng-off.jpg
Here, only one bomb is visible.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item ... /205190536
https://navywings.org.uk/wp-content/upl ... 10x8-1.jpg
The GR3, on the other hand, can be seen in several photos, carrying a pair of either Paveways or cluster bombs.

So, it can't be a matter of classified information, can it?

statistics: Posted by Sontornato — 9:14 AM - Today — Replies 3 — Views 45

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