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I wonder if the great minds of the forum could help me. This is a quote from a Treasury document of about January 1963, written immediately after the Skybolt cancellation, and is a footnote to a paper describing how the V bombers are going to be switching to the low level role:
“The Air Staff are reticent about the height and speed envisaged in the new role (? 200 feet and up to 400 knots). But they believe that, even if anybody reaches its target, nobody will return. War Office A. A. gunners don't believe that anybody will reach his target.”
I rather suspect that the Treasury don't know what they are talking about. Would Russia have any anti-aircraft guns deployed? And when were the last anti-aircraft guns decommissioned in the UK?
“The Air Staff are reticent about the height and speed envisaged in the new role (? 200 feet and up to 400 knots). But they believe that, even if anybody reaches its target, nobody will return. War Office A. A. gunners don't believe that anybody will reach his target.”
I rather suspect that the Treasury don't know what they are talking about. Would Russia have any anti-aircraft guns deployed? And when were the last anti-aircraft guns decommissioned in the UK?