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Old 29th Dec 2012, 16:57
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Reference TSR 2, see here* pages 33-44, but especially 40-44.

As stated the TSR 2 was a Canberra light bomber replacement, not a strategic bomber replacement and, with the cost going through the roof and the pull back from east of Suez on the cards, cancellation was inevitable - as was the subsequent cancellation of the F-111.

* RAF Museum - "TSR2 with Hindsight". Edited by Air Vice-Marshal A F C Hunter CBE AFC DL
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