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Originally Posted by Paul
Hardly a switch, both mean the same, but your obsession with nit picking is getting tiresome.
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Paul, apologies if you believe I’m nit-picking, but the reason I am strongly rebutting the statement "Bombers as a delivery mechanism for nuclear warhead ended in the 60's" is for a number of personal experiences.
I (and many others in the RAF) were in awe of the RAF Vulcan/Buccaneer/Phantom/Jaguar aircrew who were tasked with delivering part of the U.K.’s Nuclear Deterrent, because they (and we) knew they were very unlikely to return from their missions - so when someone posts, without a shred of supporting evidence, that these peoples’ willingness to sacrifice their lives in the 70s and 80s didn’t in fact happen, it sticks in the craw.
Also, the fact that my ex-brother-in-law was a Weapons Tech on Tactical Nukes on Bucks at Honington, then on Vulcans at Akrotiri and Scampton in the 70s and 80s, and part of my job in West Berlin (with GCHQ, NSA, & The USAF) in the late 70s and early 80s was to supply information that informed briefings to enable the fighters and bombers from Bruggen, Scampton, Waddington, Honington, and Akrotiri, on how to avoid the Soviet Air Defence network to enable them to deliver their buckets of Instant Sunshine, makes me believe that my (and many others who did the same jobs) experience and knowledge in this area outweighs that of someone whose entire argument seems to consist of "no, they didn’t"…
My last words on the subject.