Thanks guys.
This is a nice compact multi-mission platform. What's the intended ASW capability, and is that a drogue sticking out of the rear end of the pod? Would an ASW Halestorm also carry torpedoes/mines/depth charges on the hardpoints?
The pod itself holds an extendable MAD array and a sonobuoy dispenser, with the possibility of adding a small radar in the nose of the pod if required (though the main radar on the aircraft has maritime search modes also). With the pod fitted it could carry up to four ASW torpedoes on the inner wing hardpoints (hardpoints 3, 4, 8 & 9), though the points between the engine and fuselage (4 & 8) are almost exclusively assigned to drop tanks in operational service restricting the normal loadout to two torpedoes. In Recherche use it is primarily used from aircraft carriers to perform outer ring search, often allowing the helicopters to then take over the prosecution of the contact, but it is also used for coastal patrol and ASW. Depth charges are possible though not used in Recherche service but minelaying is a role it is capable of, especially with the Flounder mine based on an extended range Mk82 JDAM where it could carry a maximum of 11 (triple racks in place of drop tanks and under the fuselage - hardpoints 4, 6 & 8 - and single mines on hardpoints 3 and 9).