NEW AIRCRAFT FOR N.A.T.O.
LIGHTWEIGHT JET FIGHTER BOMBER
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 12. Plans for a light-weight Avro deltawing type of jet fighter-bomber specifically designed for N.A.T.O. countries have been disclosed by the HawkerSiddeley group in Britain. NJLt.O. air forces under the command of the American, General Lauris Morstadt, will be equipped with the Hawker-Hunter interceptor and Gloster Javelin all-weather fighters, 'Doth Hawker-Siddeley group products. But it is now felt at Supreme Allied Headquarters in Versailles that fhere is an urgent need for a light-weight inexpensive ground-attack jet aircraft with combat supersonic performance capable of operating from temporary in close support of ground j
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27273, 13 February 1954, Page 7
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