STRIKING POWER

The range of weapons that would have been carried by the TSR2 proliferated during the early 1960s — some being practical propositions, others less so A rendering of a Strike Command TSR2 carrying the air-launched BAC Blue Water, one of many weapons that were proposed for the type in the strategic role. ADRIAN MANN The TSR2’s raison d’être was weapons delivery, specifically nuclear weapons, onto enemy targets, but as the geopolitical situation changed in the years following the Suez Crisis