Originally Posted by
BEagle
Well I hope that this gets the go-ahead and won't be canned like so many previous generation UK designs.
Perhaps it might even fly on the 70th anniversary of Duncan Sandys sticking his knife into British fighter design?
While researching Duncan Sandys rationale behind the umanned fighter future, or rather all missiles only future, on another different note, National Service, he clearly nailed his colours to the Royal Navy mast. Sandys was appalled at the idea of the Senior Service having to take a share of NS conscripts, he could understand pushing them all in the Army and RAF direction but the Navy! Heaven forefend the dark blue service needed highly skilled and qualified tradesmen etc who would need to be selected. It provided some insight into the the supposedly dispassionate thinking behind the ill-advised notion of an all missile future. Although it wasn't a routine occurrence in 1957, it would be interesting to know if the CAS of the day put it to him that missiles can't shadow and identify and so on?
FB