Britain spent Billions on the aircraft just to send them to the shredder ,D’oh
The Brits seems to have that fetish. There was the TSR program during the 60s where Britain developed what would of been the premier strike aircraft in the world but the Labour/Socialist ran out of other’s people mone. The US forced the Brits to cancel the program in order to get an IMF bailout. So the Brits destroyed the prototypes and the machinery used to produce the aircraft.