english electric lightning f6

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the english electric lightning is a british fighter aircraft that served as an interceptor during the 1960s, the 1970s and into the late 1980s. it remains the only uk-designed-and-built fighter capable of mach 2. the lightning was designed, developed, and manufactured by english electric, which was later absorbed by the newly-formed british aircraft corporation. later the type was marketed as the bac lightning. it was operated by the royal air force (raf), the kuwait air force (kaf), and the royal saudi air force (rsaf). the f6 version it's single-seat fighter (an improved longer-range variant of the f.3). it featured new wings with better efficiency and subsonic performance, overwing fuel tanks and a larger ventral fuel tank, reintroduction of 30 mm cannon (initially no cannon but later in the forward part of the ventral pack rather than in the nose), use of red top missiles. a total of 39 built (also nine converted from f.3 and 15 from f.3a)