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Aviation History
1959
1959 - 0976.PDF
10 APRIL 1959 FLIGHT EMPHASIS ON MOBILITY Nowadays changes in strategical concept, the type of defence required, and the very nature and direction of any hostile threat, occur with bewild- ering rapidity. Deployments undertaken at enor- mous cost are found to be no longer required. Defences need re-siting. The exact location of static sites becomes common-knowledge. Forma- tions and units in the field need defending. TO ALL THESE PROBLEMS, THE ANSWER IS THE INGUSH ELECTRIC THUNDERBIRD The ENGLISH ELECTRIC 'Thunderbird', now in production, is a completely mobile ground-to-air weapon system. Its mobility provides the flexibility which is becoming of ever increasing importance in future air defence AND THE ECONOMY AS WELL. A MEMBER OF THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC AVIATION GROUP
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