46@JAVELINS over the JUNGLE

At home, in RAF Germany and Cyprus, the Gloster Javelin was the UK’s first line of night/all-weather air defence from the mid-1950s until the advent of the Lightning in the early 1960s, its primary role being as a high-level bomber interceptor. Its swansong, however, came in Singapore, from where the delta-winged jet came closest to seeing actual combat action JAVELINS ON OPS No 64 Squadron Javelin FAW9 XH763 low over the jungle near Kuching. KEY COLLECTION Until the early 1960s,