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Barry Thank you for taking so much trouble and giving us all easy access to this material. The 129 is very much a vstol Andover and would have fitted into the proposed mobileUK force structure for the late 60s: TSR 2s for long range strike 1154 Harriers for CloseSupport HS 681 for Intra Theatre lift The 129 would have enabled the 681s to do withoutthe expensive vstol pods. Apparently "Project Prodigal" was going to give the Army thesame sort of hyper modern kit for this force: ultra light tank destroyers, jumping jeeps andthe Scorpion CVR() family. Sadly only the latter became reality. We now know that all these systems were too complicated and had serious flaws. But the excitement of the possibilities in the early 60s is hard to shake off and are the stuff of What-if!
Barry
Thank you for taking so much trouble and giving us all easy access to this material.
The 129 is very much a vstol Andover and would have fitted into the proposed mobile
UK force structure for the late 60s: TSR 2s for long range strike 1154 Harriers for Close
Support HS 681 for Intra Theatre lift The 129 would have enabled the 681s to do without
the expensive vstol pods. Apparently "Project Prodigal" was going to give the Army the
same sort of hyper modern kit for this force: ultra light tank destroyers, jumping jeeps and
the Scorpion CVR() family. Sadly only the latter became reality.
We now know that all these systems were too complicated and had serious flaws. But the excitement of the possibilities in the early 60s is hard to shake off and are the stuff of What-if!
