Dam Busters

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
While we in the colonies have come to hate those insidious little biting insects, I can't help feeling the appellation for the aircraft is entirely apropos. Clouds of Mosquitos indeed!

Quite so.

Rather off the thrust of this thread, but occasionally the British trend for naming army kit is so apt as to be uncanny; some farsighted person in Alvis I deduce saw this coming and managed to stake off the S names it seems for Alvis alone.

Now I'll probably miss some, and some may not be instantly recognised although a Google with Alvis as a "prefix" will do, the name and vehicle application/nature is almost perfect:
Salamander, Saladin, Saracen, Stalwart, Scorpion, Striker, Scimitar, Samson, Sabre, Spartan, Samaritan, Sultan, Stormer, Shielder, Scarab and likely some I've missed.

R.