Which combat aircraft never saw action?

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Dr Jekyll said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Simpo Two said:

Avro Lincoln?

Argentina used theirs during the 1955 Revolución Libertadora. The Peron stuff.

Also the only RAF aircraft ever to be shot down by the Warsaw Pact, though I think it was unarmed at the time. I believe the RAF did use theirs in Malaya as did the Aussies.

I seem to remember reading about RAF Lincolns dropping bombs on restless natives during the Mao Mao business in Kenya.

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Johnnytheboy said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Johnnytheboy said:

I've just been trying to work it out using Wikipedia and now it's really bugging me.

Early 60s large supersonic fighter/bomber, turned out to be rubbish, but found a second career as a reconnaissance plane in Vietnam.

Really pretty - used to be one on the USS Intrepid museum in New York.

I have a book on the damn thing at home but it's gone out of my head....

Vigilante?

Come to think of it it's a bit harsh to exclude reconnaissance from the definition of combat. If it's a reconnaissance aircraft doing it's stuff and gets shot at, that is near enough combat.

Yep - that's it - for some reason it came to me when I started actually doing some work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_A-5_V...

I was going to suggest the Convair Hustler until I found this post answering your original question.