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What was 2nd best but rather good re: military kit?

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    Posted by Grand Falcon Railroad (U3267675) on Friday, 10th March 2006

    What was considered in the area of warfare second best but turned out to be rather good? (This is an expansion on the forgotten heroes post so I'm not looking foir the same answers BTW).

    For example the original P-51 Mustang was a bit of a failiure by all accounts - the good gents of Rolls-Royce fettle a Merlin engine into it and hey presto we've got a winner on our hands.

    Might I also suggest the Handley Page Victor - we might not have had the Russians to bomb anymore but let some blokes put a big tank of fuel in the back and we've got a rather effective AAR aircraft - same thing in principle with the Nimrod (adapted after Comet failiure) and VC-10 (not bad as an airliner but pretty fine as a RAF AAR tanker).

    Any suggestions?

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    Posted by Grumpyfred (U2228930) on Friday, 10th March 2006

    Short Stirling. Built as the U Ks first heavy, but (I can hear the treasury here) Built so that it fitted existing R A F hangers. So the wings were too short. Did not have the hight or range of the Lanc, or the Halifax, but after doing its job well as a bomber, went on to serve well as a glider tug

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