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Sorry, you've misunderstood him. Lightning's at full chat had VERY limited endurance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning "Range: 850 mi[38][nb 15] (1,370 km) Supersonic intercept radius: 155 mi[38][nb 16] (250 km)"...

Being pedantic, they aren't "Nuclear bombers" as I doubt they were carrying nukes. They're just bombers. Ivan has been doing this for years; I was chatting with a Lightning pilot years ago who had done interceptions of the Tupolev Tu95, they used to fly really close and point at the missies...