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Vickers Valiant has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Vickers Valiant is part of the V bombers series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

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Date	Process	Result
May 26, 2018	Good article nominee	Listed
September 25, 2018	Good topic candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 16, 2018.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Vickers Valiant XD818 (pictured) dropped the first British hydrogen bomb as part of Operation Grapple?

Current status: Good article

If they were retired in 1965, how come they had a role in 1966? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-42203-25 (talk) 09:16, 31 July 2026 (UTC)Reply