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Originally Posted by Oberon
Nice, I didn't know that. I'd completely forgotten we had Sabres, I always think of them as Yank, Canuck and German birds.
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As far as I'm aware they were a stop-gap measure supplied to us by the US because of the disparity in the NATO capability to combat the Russian Migs of the day....the Meteor was hopelessly outclassed and the Hunter was still a few years of mass production...hence the US paid for the Sabres sent to the UK.