A Thunderbolt in the Shape of the Royal Air Force

On October 30, 1965 at a press conference in Rhodesia, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson stated the following in regards to potential British military action in the event of a Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence. "If there are those in this country who are thinking in terms of a thunderbolt, hurtling through the sky and destroying the enemy, a thunderbolt in the shape of the Royal Air Force, let me say that his thunderbolt will not be coming, and to continue in this delusion wastes valuable time and misdirects valuable energies." In this scenario there is indeed a thunderbolt coming...