Arguably a better aircraft than anything NATO could put up against it. And having the advantage of nuclear hardened avionics through the use of "old fashioned" miniature wired in vacuum tubes and other "outdated" technology possibly would have given this A/C a decisive edge in a war based on the Soviet 1960-70s plan involving the use of massive nuclear first strike in a breakout through the UK-N-G "gap" into the Atlantic. Fortunately it never happened so this A/C was never tested. a nice aircraft to fly.