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TSR2 Precision Attack to Tornado

Navigation and Weapon Delivery

John Forbat
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Pages
160
Year
2012
Language
English

About

Included are details on the ground-breaking navigation and attack system, its Cold War context, its requirements and the development of ATF (advanced terrain following), and in-depth analysis of automatic flight control systems, analogue and digital simulations at Weybridge and the reconnaissance pack for mapping enemy territory. It finishes with a look at the final throes of TSR2's cancellation by the Labour government in 1965.

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"'This fascinating personal account of the behind the scenes action at Vickers during the heyday of British aviation and weaponry invention in the 1950s and 1960s is both authoritative and very, very readable.'"
Wg Cdr Al Monkman, D.F.C., M.A., B.A., R.A.F.

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