Originally Posted by
GlosMikeP
That's even more interesting than you may realise. DoD people came over to UK in the late 50s making 'buy' noises for TSR2, but were in fact gathering technical info to feed into the F111.
TSR2 did have TFR, incidentally.
Although TSR2 was cancelled in 1965 (?) there were cells at Bomber Command, what would now be IPT I guess, looking at TSR2 and F111. There was intense partisanship between the two cells and,
AFAIK, no meeting of minds. Whichever cell you were in had the best aircraft for the job.