 In the meantime , the Royal Navy deployed the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious with Red Beards and nuclear @-@ capable Supermarine Scimitars to the Far East in 1960 . As with the original Singapore strategy , there were doubts as to whether 24 V bombers could be spared in the event of a crisis dire enough to require them , especially after China 's acquisition of nuclear weapons in 1964 . As the Indonesia – Malaysia confrontation heated up in 1963 , Bomber Command sent detachments of Victors and Vulcans to the Far East . Over the next three years , four V bombers were permanently stationed there , with squadrons in the United Kingdom rotating detachments . In April 1965 , No. 35 Squadron RAF carried out a rapid deployment of its eight Vulcans to RAAF Butterworth and RAF Tengah . Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy reported that the V bombers " provided a valuable deterrent to confrontation being conducted on a large scale " . 
