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Seems they cancelled because Sea Vixen could be brought to service much earlier and piling all that weight on Scimitar made the potential failure of increased blow over the wing and tail a potential disaster for navalisation.Meanwhile by '55 we're into F.155, F.177 and NA.47. All seem superlative in performance compared to Type 556 and projected ISD only a few years after Type 556. So they must've thought "what's the point, it'll be out of date by 1962".
Seems they cancelled because Sea Vixen could be brought to service much earlier and piling all that weight on Scimitar made the potential failure of increased blow over the wing and tail a potential disaster for navalisation.
Meanwhile by '55 we're into F.155, F.177 and NA.47. All seem superlative in performance compared to Type 556 and projected ISD only a few years after Type 556. So they must've thought "what's the point, it'll be out of date by 1962".
