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Is the Avro Vulcan the most beautiful bomber of the Cold War?
Bonus video: Vulcan bomber stuns beach-goers with a low fly by:
The Avro Vulcan first flew in 1956 and formed the front line of the British nuclear deterrent through much of the cold war. It saw (non-nuclear) combat against Argentina in the 1982 Falklands War. Nonetheless, the model was retired in 1984.
The aeroplane in the above videos is XH558 The Spirit of Great Britain, the last flyable Vulcan. She took to the air for the final time in 2015, and remains in a taxiable condition.
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!engineering since the retirement of the “V bombers” like Vulcan, Britain's sole nuclear deployment system is through submarines, namely the Vanguard class. I wonder if the Brits will ever develop another bomber, they have the BAE Tempest fighter project right now at least.
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I think that manned strategic bombers are now the exclusive domain of the US and China, with Russia as a maybe.
Unmanned bomber aircraft are a possibility, though.
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holy frick the howl dude god i FRICKING LOVE PLANES
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Nuclear war was cooler before ICBMs
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War keeps getting gayer and more pathetic with each passing year
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ICBMs are for first strike. Had WW3 erupted during the Cuban Missile Crisis the US would have used the long ranged strategic bombers (B-52s) to nuke the USSR as part of the second strike (The Soviets only have a few dozens of ICBMs in 1962 anyway hence why Cuba was important).
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The cars got horny and are catcalling the avro. disgusting car behaviour
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