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==Valiant crashes==
I know there were some Vulcan and Victor crashes. But how about the Valiant? Comments appreciated.[[User:Mikeo1938|Mikeo1938]] ([[User talk:Mikeo1938|talk]]) 08:46, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
As I understand it (and I'm not a Vickers fan boy), the Victor was an out-and-out lemon but it had a lot of money thrown at it to fix the problems, for some unknown reason. The Valiant was smaller and simpler because it was older, but the performance specs are only slightly lower than for the Victor. The Vulcan was a good bit of engineering for its time, but its time was 10yrs after the Valiant. After the Nassau and Polaris agreements were done none of the V bombers were needed. The MoD then changed the Valiant's role and made many of the units operate at low level. From WW2, this sort of operation was known to cause rapid metal fatigue. It was a deliberate move to get rid of the a/c. The reasons to prolong the lives of Victors and Vulcans was simply political, and no doubt had more to do with the unions employed at these companies, rather than the companies or a/c themselves.[[Special:Contributions/27.33.243.64|27.33.243.64]] ([[User talk:27.33.243.64|talk]]) 08:02, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
== The difficulties encountered when building the Valiant ==
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