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Defiant variants

In a file about the Northolt Defiant Flight (radio countermeasures trials), the unit's initial establishmant is given as "6 I.E. + 3 I.R. Defiants” — does anyone know what those abbreviations stand for?
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I.E. initial establishment

I.R. immediate reserve

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