60 today, and still shifting books like a teenager.
Thread 'TSR2 Conference - Cosford 13 May 2023' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/tsr2-conference-cosford-13-may-2023.41350/
1964
aerospace industry
british aircraft corporation
cold war
englishelectriccompanylimited
gor.339
great britain
ministry of supply
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear battlefield
or.343
raf bomber command
royal air force
strategic bomber
strategic reconnaissance
tactical reconnaissance
vickers-armstrongs
I know that these subjects have been done to death but I am still trying to get my head around the relationship between the two areas.
A VG derivative of TSR2 would have made sense if the programme had worked out as originally planned, with aircraft in service by 1970 and a satisfactory RAF...
cold war
englishelectriccompanylimited
gor.339
great britain
ministry of supply
nuclear battlefield
or.343
raf bomber command
raf strike command
royal air force
strategic bomber
strategic reconnaissance
tactical reconnaissance
variable geometry
vickers-armstrongs
The F4 Phantom might have failed to materialise as the wonderful plane which the RAF and RN used to fill various gaps from the 60s onwards. In a Phantomless world would P1154 have been developed as planned in 1963 for both RAF and RN or would the Lightning have been developed in its swing wing...
alternate history
british aircraft corporation
cold war
early 1960s
englishelectriccompanylimited
fleet air arm
great britain
hawker siddeley aviation ltd
mcdonnell aircraft corporation
nuclear battlefield
raf fighter command
royal air force
royal navy
stol
strategic air command
united states
united states air force
united states navy
v/stol aircraft
vtol
Hell-For-Leather
After their nuclear attack against a Soviet industrial target, the crew of this TSR2 dive back to the relative safety of supersonic low-level flight. With the bomber’s cover now broken, a “Shilka” self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is the first enemy unit to respond. As they...
aerospace industry
british aircraft corporation
cold war
early 1960s
englishelectriccompanylimited
free fall nuclear bombs
great britain
late 1950s
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear battlefield
raf bomber command
raf germany
raf strike command
royal air force
strategic bomber
sub-strategic nuke
tactical nuke
tactical reconnaissance
vickers-armstrongs
world war iii
I was thinking the other day, 'did the British ever think of, or look at a carrier-based variant of the English Electric Canberra light bomber'?
Does anyone know an answer to this?
Regards
Pioneer
cold war
englishelectriccompanylimited
great britain
nuclear battlefield
raf bomber command
raf strike command
royal air force
strategic air command
strategic reconnaissance
united states air force
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