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The Short SA.4 Sperrin (named after the Sperrin Mountains a range of hills in Northern Ireland) was a British jet bomber design of the early 1950s built by Short Brothers and Harland of Belfast popularly abbreviated Shorts. It first flew in 1951. The design had always been a fall-back option in case the more advanced jet designs of the V bombers were delayed and it was not put into production because these swept-wing designs (such as the Vickers Valiant) were by then available.