I wouldn’t expect that much difference. The H was just a stripped down B. Suspect that they will do the same.
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Agreed, but to my limited knowledge, the stripping will be less thorough. While the sonar and buoy launcher are obvious deletes, I expect the SO console to remain (kinda like H), but also radar, and I'm not sure you can order a Romeo without the ESM antennas.
Probably similiar to the Dane's CG versions.
I was wondering if ESM would be a delete item. I wouldn't imagine they'd want to pay for the logistics tail of that. There are blanker plates for the arrays. Here's one of one of the RAN aircraft from a press release, there's some other photos of one of the INN aircraft (that I can't manage to find on Google right now).
Not the prettiest, but probably cheaper than redoing the airframe.
The article mentions the lack of weather radar, but Romeo does have weather radar capability, it just has to be turned on in the software. I'm not sure if that's made it into the domestic AOP by now.