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    The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear armed standoff missile, built to arm the V bomber force. It allowed the bomber...
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  • Look up steel blue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blue Steel or blue steel may refer to: Blue steel, a tempering color of steel Bluing (steel), a process...
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    electronic countermeasures, and many were modified to accept the Blue Steel missile. As a part of the V-force, the Vulcan was the backbone of the United...
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    bomber force changed to low-level attack methods. Additionally the Blue Steel missile profile was changed to one of low level penetration and release. This...
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    version of KUZGUN, specifically designed for UAVs. Blue Steel missile Brimstone missile Green Cheese missile (canceled in 1956) ALARM Storm Shadow BAe Sea...
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  • Avro (section Missiles)
    Canada PV-704 (built as engine test model only) Avro Canada TS-140 Blue Steel missile Avro also built motor vehicles in the immediate post-World War 1 era...
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    the target. Developed under the rainbow code "Blue Jay", Firestreak was the third heat-seeking missile to enter service, after the US AIM-4 Falcon and...
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  • Armstrong Siddeley Stentor, liquid-fuelled rocket engine used in the Blue Steel missile STENTOR (satellite), a French communications satellite Les Stentors...
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  • Woomera, South Australia using HTP and kerosene fuel. The British Blue Steel missile, attached to Vulcan and Victor bombers, in the 1960s, was produced...
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    Raduga Kh-20 Blue Steel (missile) Related lists List of military aircraft of the United States List of missiles "AGM-28 Missile Hound Dog Missile Hound Dog"...
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  • Kormoran (Germany) Astra BVRAAM (India) Barq (Pakistan) BGM-71 TOW (USA) Blue Steel missile (UK) Fairey Fireflash (UK) Fairey Firestreak (UK) FIM-92 Stinger (ATAS...
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    determined the 48 in (120 cm) diameter of both Yellow Sun and the Blue Steel missile. The launch of Sputnik 1 coincided with ongoing negotiations between...
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  • AGM-181 LRSO BrahMos Babur B61 nuclear bomb with mod-12 tail guidance kit. Blue Steel Umbani DRDO SAAW GAM-87 Skybolt H-2 SOW H-4 SOW Ra'ad Mk-1 Ra'ad Mk-2...
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    Stentor, was a two-chamber HTP rocket engine used to power the Blue Steel stand-off missile carried by Britain's V bomber force. The high thrust chamber...
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  • Snow was used as both a free-fall bomb and as the warhead of the Blue Steel missile. In the gravity bomb role, it was fitted into the casing of the Yellow...
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  • naval aircraft in the anti-shipping role while at the same time the Blue Steel missile provided much longer stand-off range in the strategic role and did...
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    initially armed with nuclear gravity bombs, later being equipped with the Blue Steel missile. Following the development of the Royal Navy's Polaris submarines...
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    the Woomera Rocket Range, mounted on the nose of an air-launched Blue Steel missile, and a number of airframes were tested in the wind tunnel at NASA's...
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  • to do so had only limited success. The first attempt involved the Blue Steel missile (in service: 1963–1970). It worked, but its range meant that bombers...
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    the Blue Steel missile stand-off bomb, together with the peroxide APU, from its first flight in October 1959.[citation needed] Aerfer Leone Blue Steel missile...
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    been developed or flight-proven on the Black Knight rocket, or the Blue Steel missile. Black Arrow was designed to reuse as much technology from the earlier...
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    missile and then for a period at Canadair in Montreal before returning to the UK and joining the Blue Steel missile project. When the follow-on Blue Steel...
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  • solution. The Blue Steel (missile) stand-off thermo-nuclear missile came to the rescue allowing the V-force to fly in low and launch the missile which in turn...
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    Diamant (category Rockets and missiles)
    programmes such as the Black Knight ballistic missile demonstrator and the military-orientated Blue Steel missile programme, France also made progress on its...
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    introducing their own stand-off missile, the 950 kilometres (590 mi) ranged Mach 3 Blue Steel. While capable, the missile flew at altitudes and speeds that...
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    Wing" was formed, the aircraft equipped with the Blue Steel stand-off missile. On 30 June 1968, Blue Steel operations at Scampton were terminated, as the...
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    "Anglicise" the W28 nuclear warhead as the Red Snow warhead for the Blue Steel missile. The British designers were impressed by the W28, which was not only...
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    museum's car park, together with an Avro Blue Steel missile, an early design format of such a nuclear missile, and a Boulton Paul BP.111A, an experimental...
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    modification they entered service in July 1964 in support of the UK's Blue Steel missile programme ferrying equipment and personnel to the Woomera Test Range...
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  • Rainbow Code (section Blue)
    Centurion Crocodile tank Blue Ranger – delivery of Blue Steel to Australia Blue Rapier – Red Rapier – missiles – see UB.109T Blue Riband – large jamming-resistant...
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