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TSR2

TSR2

Britain's lost Cold War strike jet

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  • Release Date: 19/10/2017
  • Barcode: 9781472822482
  • Genre: History
  • Sub-Genre: Military History
  • Imprint: Osprey Publishing
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
TSR2

TSR2

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Britain's lost Cold War strike jet
The story of Britain's legendary lost world-beater, the Mach 2 TSR2 strike bomber, retold and freshly analysed by one of Britain's eminent military aviation experts. It will appeal to anyone interested in Cold War-era aviation and post-war military history.

The TSR2 is one of the greatest 'what-if' aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among aviation fans.

It was a magnificent, cutting-edge aircraft, one of the most striking of the Cold War, but fell victim to cost overruns, overambitious requirements, and politics. Its scrapping marked the point when Britain's aerospace industry could no longer build world-class aircraft independently. After the demise of TSR2 the RAF's future jets would be modified US aircraft like the Phantom and pan-European collaborations like Tornado and Typhoon.

In this book the eminent air power analyst and ex-Vulcan bomber pilot Andrew Brookes takes a fresh, hard-headed look at the TSR2 project, telling the story of its development, short career and cancellation, and evaluating how it would have performed in Cold War strike roles as well as in the recent wars in the Middle East.



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  • Contributor: Adam Tooby (Illustrated by)
  • Illustrator: Adam Tooby
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