There are some people (not here) who will dismiss this feat as a pointless exercise, that it could have been done by anyone and anything and I know a few of them would have said Lancasters should have been used, such is their hatred for the Vulcan. Even before reading Vulcan 607, if you could only understand what all these guys went through to achieve their goal, which they did.
There are lots of people who dismiss the Vulcan, this Mission and, indeed its aircrew and, more than anything, those Victors and all their crews without which it would not have been possible. Like bombing the dams and the attacks on every German city in WW2, the stakes were exactly the same at the target, and once again we had outwitted our enemy using cunning and planning with equipment that was out of date, even in the late 60's. The longest bombing mission of it's time as well, which, again, no small feat. It should rank up there with the greatest...
