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I've often thought it odd that Avro Canada, a subsidiary of Britain's Hawker Siddeley corporation did not combine forces with Britain's BAC to create a single Arrow/TSR-2 aircraft.

In 1955, the British gov't launched the specification for a replacement for the Canberra, the very same year development got well underway for the Avro Arrow.

It seems silly for a nation the size of Britain to not have its aircraft companies (including its foreign subsidiaries) design a single airframe that could be modified to do both jobs. Yes the Arrow was solely a Canadian-govt project, but with some of Hawker Siddeley's top designers on its global staff working on the project, why not collaborate with BAC on Britain's needs?

Such an aircraft would be akin to the General Dynamics F-111, designed an interceptor and nuclear strike aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics–Grumman_F-111B



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