Hi Rupert,

Yes, the Gazelle is, as far as I can tell, the only one that has drop tanks which rarely jettisons them. This means that unless they have disabled the jettisoning mechanism a Gazelle can have an accident while entering and during jump.

Tom Rux

> On 06/18/2020 7:20 PM Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 19Jun2020 1334, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
> list) wrote:
> > Also, somewhere else (maybe MT) the idea of external demountable tanks
> > was introduced.
> > These if used were carried into jump thus increasing the displacement
> > tonnage but if not needed could be demounted & left behind.
> The Gazelle-class close escort has had them since forever.
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