Originally Posted by
pr00ne
etudiant,
No it wasn't, not in 1962. Within two years the RAF was dismantling its Thor and Bloodhound 1 sites and any who had chosen 'rocketry" as a career path were in trouble.
Guess I was blinded by my US perspective.
You are entirely right, the UK turned its back on 'one shot' systems, but never came up with an alternative.
Afaik, the Lightning, whose origins predate that era, was the last indigenous UK combat aircraft. All since then has been mutts, no thoroughbreds.