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    Fort Halstead was a research site of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence. It is situated...
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  • Fort Halstead, a government defence research centre that is thought to have developed Britain's first atomic bomb. Chelsfield Football club Halstead Cricket...
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    direction of the Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead. It demonstrated a firing rate as high as 96 rounds per minute, about...
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    as anti-aircraft weapons. To provide a more remote testing location, Fort Halstead in Kent was acquired by the War Office in 1937, initially serving as...
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  • the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (RARDE) at Fort Halstead in Kent in 1954.[citation needed] In July 1957 the British Army ordered...
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    In the 21st century, it has a large commuting population. The nearby Fort Halstead defence installation was formerly a major local employer. Located to...
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  • Aircraft, in collaboration with the High Explosive Research project at Fort Halstead, Kent. It changed its name to Hunting Percival Aircraft in 1954 and...
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    place Penney, now the Chief Superintendent Armament Research (CSAR) at Fort Halstead in Kent, in charge of the development effort, which was codenamed High...
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    The Penetration of Targets by Long Rod Projectiles (PDF). AD0595793. Fort Halstead: Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment. p. 1. J.B. Stevens;...
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    developed in the late 1930s by the Projectile Development Establishment at Fort Halstead in Kent under the direction of Alwyn Crow. The naval weapon had been...
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  • Alverstoke, Hampshire (as a tenant of the Institute of Naval Medicine) Fort Halstead, Kent (departure planned since 2011, expected to be complete in 2022)...
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    the Projectile Development Establishment of the Ministry of Supply at Fort Halstead. It proved unreliable and ineffective and was withdrawn from use in...
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    Establishment (FVPE), Chertsey The Projectile Development Establishment at Fort Halstead (moved to Aberporth, Cardiganshire, in 1940 where it remained until...
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    Royal Arsenal, Woolwich and then Fort Halstead; and at PERME Waltham Abbey, later transferred to RARDE Fort Halstead. After privatisation Royal Ordnance...
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    enriched uranium in 1954. William Penney directed bomb design from Fort Halstead. In 1951 his design group moved to a new site at Aldermaston in Berkshire...
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    history Designer Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment, Fort Halstead (barrel and bipod) Designed 1956 Manufacturer Royal Ordnance (barrel...
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    Woolwich and then Fort Halstead, in Sevenoaks, Kent; and at PERME Waltham Abbey, Essex, which later moved to become RARDE Fort Halstead. In 1942, Sir Andrew...
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    sent to the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead, Kent. Once there, it was sieved again and forensically analysed. In...
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    government Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (RARDE), Fort Halstead, Kent. Prototypes were tested in 1968. It soon emerged that some increase...
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  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Alverstoke Bedford Farnborough Fort Halstead Malvern Pershore Porton Down Portsdown West Winfrith Cognition and Brain...
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  • England Halstead railway station, Essex Fort Halstead, a British military research site Halstead, Kansas, a city in Harvey County Halstead Property,...
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    Retrieved 2010-07-26. For the "Armament Research Department", see Fort Halstead, and cf. the entry for 1944 in "MoD History of Innovation" (PDF). Ploughshare...
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    developed by the scientists Mike Barker MBE and Peter Hubbard OBE at RARDE Fort Halstead in late 1971 working under great pressure over a period of several weeks...
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  • William Penney, the Chief Superintendent Armament Research (CSAR) at Fort Halstead in Kent, in charge of the development effort, which was codenamed High...
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    tank gun. The Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead designed a new 120 mm rifled tank gun in 1957. The new gun was deemed...
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    under scanner". ibnlive.com. 10 July 2007. Retrieved 10 July 2007. "Fort Halstead probes car in London security scare". Kent News. 29 June 2007. Archived...
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    reinforced concrete, and the Chief Engineer of Armament Development at Fort Halstead prepared a preliminary design to present to the MAP. In the face of...
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    1959–present Used by Western Bloc and others Production history Designer RARDE Fort Halstead Designed 1950s Specifications Case type Rimmed, bottleneck Bullet diameter...
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    Research Establishment (RARDE) at Fort Halstead, which afforded him the rank of chief experimental officer. At Fort Halstead Barker was responsible for the...
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    designs) failed in a fire. In 1936, a British research programme based at Fort Halstead in Kent under the direction of Dr. Alwyn Crow started work on a series...
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