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The Blackburn Buccaneer was turned down by the RAF due to its sub-sonic maximum speed, but was adopted by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm as their carrier based strike bomber. The type was to have a long service life, being taken on by the RAF as a maritime strike bomber and flying in the first Gulf war as laser designator aircraft for precision guided weapons delivered by other aircraft. Naval aircraft need to be able to carry a lot of fuel, providing the Buccaneer both a long radius of action or extended loiter time over the target. This allowed Buccaneers to perform 'show of force' missions over Belize (then British Honduras) in 1972 and the Lebanon in 1983, undertaken at extreme range. The Buccaneer was also very robust and, in the hands of low flying RAF pilots, was reputed to leave paint on Nevada rocks while performing low-level penetration missions during Red Flag exercises. The paint on the rocks is hopefully apocryphal, but the 'red force' air defense gunners certainly ducked when the Buccaneers tore up the desert!