The Valiant was the first of the V-bombers to see combat during the Anglo-French-Israeli Suez intervention in October & November 1956 During Operation Musketeer Valiants operating from the airfield at Luqa on Malta dropped conventional HE bombs on Egyptian targets Also On May 15 1957 a 49 Squadron Valiant B K 1 dropped the first British hydrogen bomb the Short Granite AKA Green Granite Small over the Pacific as part of Operation Grapple