B.A.C. (English Electric) Lightning F. Mk.1 - Fictional users

We start with what we hope will be a saga throughout our blog: The fictional users.

We have choosen two users for this airplane, Republican Spain and Rhodesia.

• Republican Spain: In real timeline, the United Kingdom set-up an arms embargo against the Francoist Spain. It's feasible to think that if a democratical Republic had won the civil war (and, if that was the case, also went through the World War 2 allied with UK and France) that government would be a good customer for British arm industries.
• Rhodesia: Once the Rhodesian Bush war was won by the Rhodesian government and, in order to secure their airspace from Angolan and Mozambican incursions, they bought some obsolete interceptors from the UK that, in Rhodesia weren't so obsolete.