If this is the basis of a thread on pre-1957 RAF and FAA numbers then perhaps that should be a little more explicit, such as in the thread's title.
Though I might suggest its getting a bit outside 'alternative history and future speculation'. Unless we're talking of soviet levels of defence expediture or the sudded improvement in UK finances.
If however its a debate over the merits or lack of various pre-1957 cancellations perhaps that too ought to be in the title. It does fall properly into the scope of the 'alternative history and future speculation'.
Assuming it is the latter, one really does have to question the value of the Type 545, dayfighters without decent radar were increasingly seem as invalid against the perceived threat.
It does surprise me how far Hawkers seem to have gone with their competing design.
Scimitar development and variants is a very interesting question we've touched on before.
Glosters Thin Wing Javelin might well be something to look at, however far ahead Canada might have seemed the costings didn't seem to add up. One has to ponder what the impact of the Gloster machine might have had in the light of Sandy's later cuts and beyond to the train of decisions leading to the RAF's purchase of the Phantom II and its subsequent roles.
Valiant B2 poses its a number of conundrums.
Would the existence of this and the development of the 'new' lighter and smaller nuclear stores shift effort towards the improved navigation and attack equipment, or the simple ditching of the type for a more glamorous supersonic machine?
On the face of it the later GOR.339's runway requirements suggest the latter answer, even if it wasn't supersonic.
