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The complicating factor is that roles that required specialist aircraft in the 50s can be done by an aircraft capable of covering other roles by the 60s. So in the RAF context a Canberra replacement should be seen as Canberra-Hunter or Canberra-V bomber replacement. This has the added advantage of increasing the fleet size in order amortise costs over the largest number of aircraft.We know the RAF wanted the Canberra-V bomber path but pretty much ended up with the Canberra-Hunter replacement. Both are valid, but niether are cheap and easy.
The complicating factor is that roles that required specialist aircraft in the 50s can be done by an aircraft capable of covering other roles by the 60s. So in the RAF context a Canberra replacement should be seen as Canberra-Hunter or Canberra-V bomber replacement. This has the added advantage of increasing the fleet size in order amortise costs over the largest number of aircraft.
We know the RAF wanted the Canberra-V bomber path but pretty much ended up with the Canberra-Hunter replacement. Both are valid, but niether are cheap and easy.
