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The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-borne attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN). Designed and produced by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, it was later officially known as the Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer when Blackburn became a part of the Hawker Siddeley Group, but this name is rarely used.
The Buccaneer was designed in response to the Soviet Union's Sverdlov-class cruiser construction program Instead of building a new fleet of its own, the Royal Navy could use the Buccaneer to attack these ships by approaching at low altitudes below the ship's radar horizon. The Buccaneer could attack using a nuclear bomb, or conventional weapons. It was later intended to carry short-range anti-shipping missiles to improve its survivability against more modern ship-based anti-aircraft armaments.
The Buccaneer entered Royal Naval service in 1962. The Buccaneer was also offered as an entrant into a new Royal Air Force (RAF) contest for a new attack aircraft. The Buccaneer was finally purchased by the RAF, entering service in 1969.
The Royal Navy retired the last of its large aircraft carriers in 1978, moving their strike role to the British Aerospace Sea Harrier, and passing their Buccaneers to the RAF.
The ending of the Cold War led to a reduction in strength of the RAF, and the accelerated retirement of the remaining fleet, with the last Buccaneers in RAF service being retired in 1994; in favour of the Panavia Tornado.
The South African Air Force (SAAF) also procured the type. Buccaneers saw combat action in the first Gulf War of 1991, and the South African Border War.

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"The good old buc at best. "❤️ 💪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@diamondbill9805]

Just Beautiful.

[@AVMamfortas]

Brill doco. 12 sqdn was mine :) I was ATC Liaison at Honington.

[@Quadrant14]

This was a wonderful doco, and had a lot of colour footage/interviews and in cockpit camera work I had never seen before, bloody excellent

[@andreasvictorious3991]

RIP Jeff Ethell

[@mashelalnaar]

36:52 is what your looking for...

[@danielwalker2613]

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