CoffmanStarter,
TSR2 wasn't murdered, it was put out of its misery.
The Air Staff had turned against it and were reccommending cancellation, if the Tories had won the 1964 General Election they too would have cancelled it.
it was an outmoded concept from the Trip Wire all out nuclear response age, it was over complex and over complicated, a committee designed solution to a problem that had ceased to exist.
It was massively over budget, and IF it had continued would have wreaked havoc on the RAF equipment programme as you would have had no Phantoms, no Buccaneers and no Tornado's, just 50 VERY expensive free fall nuclear delivery platforms.
Was VERY good looking though...