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    Sea Dart, or GWS.30 was a Royal Navy surface-to-air missile system designed in the 1960s and entering service in 1973. It was fitted to the Type 42 destroyers...
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    The Convair F2Y Sea Dart is an American seaplane fighter aircraft that rode on twin hydro-skis during takeoff and landing. It flew only as a prototype...
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  • Look up Dart, dart, or DART in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dart or DART may refer to: Dart, the equipment in the game of darts Dart (comics), an Image...
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    cruisers "East of Suez". Anti-aircraft capability was provided by the new Sea Dart missile system and the class also had anti-submarine capability. They were...
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    first years trying out the new systems and the Sea Dart missile system, particularly as the intended Sea Dart trials ship, HMS Bristol, suffered serious fires...
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    poorly during trials and were notoriously poor sea-keepers. Type 42 destroyers were fitted with the Sea Dart surface-to-air missiles designed in the 1960s...
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    US Navy hull classification symbols) with up to fourteen aircraft and a Sea Dart missile launcher on the bows. The government decided that the carrier needed...
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  • Navy. It was intended to follow on from the Type 42 but armed with the Sea Dart Mark II missile. The primary role of the Type 43 was to protect a task...
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    defensive armament consisted of a twin Sea Dart surface to air missile launcher in the ship's bows. 22 Sea Dart missiles were carried. A Type 1022 long-range...
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    carry a single CIWS unit, mounted forward between her 4.5-inch gun and the Sea Dart launcher. To this end, her breakwaters were enlarged and she was fitted...
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    to engage targets at longer ranges with its Sea Dart missiles, the Type 22 would use its short-range Sea Wolf missiles to defend both ships. On 12 May...
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    The River Dart is a river in Devon, England, that rises high on Dartmoor and flows for 75 kilometres (47 mi) to the sea at Dartmouth. Most hydronyms in...
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    but this was passed over in favour of a new medium-range system, Sea Dart. Sea Dart entered service in 1973 on the Type 82 destroyers and replaced Seaslug...
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    frigate size. This led to the Small-Ship Guided Weapon and ultimately to Sea Dart, which was tested in the anti-shipping role against a Brave-class patrol...
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    multi-dart warhead, but is a guided gun projectile with radio controls and a proximity fuze for low level engagement (up to 2 meters over the sea). DART is...
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    Bristol saw a number of new systems introduced into the Navy, including the Sea Dart anti-aircraft and Ikara anti-submarine missile systems and was the first...
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    London, fired the last Mk 1 Sea Slug missiles to allow Exeter's new radars to fully integrate and align the superior Sea Dart missile against, high and...
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    deployed a ramjet powered surface to air missile for ships called the Sea Dart. It had a range of 65–130 kilometres (40–80 mi) and a speed of Mach 3....
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    or 30 mm cannon. Total destroyed in the air: 45 (Sea Harrier 21, Sea Dart 7, Sea Wolf 4, Stinger 2, Sea Cat 1, Rapier 1, Blowpipe 1, Combination/Gunfire...
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    in the Netherlands Navy. Originally the ships were to have the British Sea Dart missile system, but this was changed to the more compact American Standard...
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    predesignated service had the aircraft been implemented. For example, the F2Y Sea Dart is not listed below as it was intended for naval service. List of fighter...
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  • search-and-rescue helicopters. Defences included an Ikara anti-submarine system and a Sea Dart anti-aircraft missile (then under development) on the quarterdeck. The...
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    sealed shipping box. The same box was used for the proposed Lightweight Sea Dart, allowing a ship to carry either or both on the same launcher. One advantage...
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    Iran–Iraq War in 1980. She was also the first ship to replenish a Sea Dart missile at sea. Birmingham spent much of her service as Fleet Contingency Ship...
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    designs, including the F-102 Delta Dagger, F-106 Delta Dart, B-58 Hustler, the US Navy's F2Y Sea Dart as well as the VTOL FY Pogo. Prior to August 1945, the...
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  • her most notable action was to shoot down an Iraqi Silkworm missile with Sea Dart missiles. The Iraqi missile had targeted the US battleship USS Missouri...
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    the carrier groups. The idea was that if Sea Dart was unable to neutralise the threat, the short-range Sea Wolf advanced point-defence missile fitted...
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  • – ocean salvage tug from 24 May. Surface-to-air missiles Sea Slug Sea Cat Sea Wolf Sea Dart Surface-to-surface missiles Aérospatiale MM38 Exocet (Anti-ship...
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    The Sea Dart would land on (smooth) water; then be lowered and raised from the sea via crane. The Navy also considered combining the Sea Dart with the...
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  • the destroyer carried out her first sea trials, and her crew was trained in the operation and launching of Sea Dart missiles. She returned to Argentina...
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