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The Avro Vulcan - Britain’s nuclear bomber was brilliant, troubled, and never truly safe
The Vulcan entered service looking like the future of British air power, but its early career was far more troubled than its ...
Aviation Republic on MSN
The Avro Vulcan - Britain’s nuclear bomber had to fly straight into Soviet hell
The Vulcan’s low-level mission was built around one of the grimmest assumptions of the Cold War: that if war came, its crews ...
Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the ...
In the early Cold War, the Royal Air Force fielded three separate strategic bombers—but relinquished all three amid advances in anti-air technology. Today, only three countries on Earth field a ...
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