The asset became HI-VALU, so would never have been risked in an opening, iron phase...yet that precision, to find moving targets, was the core of its avionics suite, time and cost.
Beags ,I think
tornadoken has hit on a critical point. You may well remember one of Sir Humphrey's minions lecturing in College Hall c.1969 on this very point, in answer to a question from the floor.
"To have lost a TSR2 would have been the political equivalent of losing a destroyer".
Financially about 8 million pounds (when 8 Million pounds was a lot of money
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