interceptor TSR-2...

[elmayerle]

IMHO = In My Humble Opinion (as opposed to IMNSHO = In My Not So Humble Opinion)
BTW = By The Way
IIRC = If I Recall Correctly

The military Medway was "leveraged" off the basic civilian version being developed for the original design of the DH.121 Trident.  When BEA insisted on the design being shrunken, the Spey was produced as essentially a "scaled down" Medway and most of the work was diverted to the Spey from the Medway, prolonging development time in a period where engine technology was developing as rapidly as any other branch of aerospace technology and significantly raising the costs of military variants of the Medway.  This effectively killed a most promising engine.  Project Cancelled has a good discussion of this.

[Blue Steel]

TSR2 was considered as an interceptor.
It wasn't though coz it needed an Interception faradr from the E.E Lightning F3  

[Archibald]

Welcome here, but be careful or you'll angry wooksta... well, read the thread before posting!  

[GeorgeC]

TSR2 was considered as an interceptor.
It wasn't though coz it needed an Interception faradr from the E.E Lightning F3

Welcome Blue Steel.  The AI23 was a fairly compact installation and shouldn't have been to difficult to install in the TSR2.  Have you a reference for this  - an original one would be particulalry interesting.    

[Zen]

The set used on the TSR.2 was just another Ferranti derivative of the AI.23 monopulse set and AIRPASS electronics.
It was a simplified version for the simplified roles it would be used for, as TFR was a seperate radar, two seperate SLARs in fact.

So in theory a more capable version of the radar would be used for an interceptor. Perhaps with the Ferranti auto-interception system developed, but not fielded for the Lightning.

[Blue Steel]

Why i said this was a reference in july's issue of model aircraft monthly, where it covered the interceptor proposal.