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V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers

The failed high-altitude fighter that proved crucial to the liberation of Europe as a deadly ground-attack aircraft

You could never have accused Rolls-Royce of flooding the market with new models. In the 20 years preceding the New Phantom’s arrival in 1925, the Twenty had been the only new production Rolls to join

Nearly 30 years after giving them up, the RAF is poised to reacquire air-dropped nuclear weapons

DEFENSE

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