alternatehistory.com

I think many people know that as part of the 1957 Defence White Paper British Defence Minister Duncan Sandys, Chairman of a War Cabinet Committee for defence against German flying bombs and rockets, declared manned aircraft were obsolete and scrapped development of everything but the Lightning prototype. This decision was, in practice, overturned by about 1960 but the damage was done.

But WI, for whatever reason, he decided that whatever future missiles might have is a long way off in 1957 and manned aircraft were the way of the future?
Top