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Aviation History
1959
1959 - 1637.PDF
24 FLIGHT 12 JUNE 1959 EMPHASIS O 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- OBILITY 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 ENGLISH 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. " "" T A MEMBER emu OF THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC AVIATION GROUP
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