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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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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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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De Havilland Firestreak (redirect from Blue Jay missile)
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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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-28 Hound Dog (redirect from Hound Dog (missile))
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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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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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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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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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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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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is believed to have stopped in 1963, after the development of the Blue Steel missile programme. The nuclear facility was closed in 1966 and became an industrial...
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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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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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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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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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No. 112 Signals Unit RAF (section Cuban Missile Crisis)
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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GAM-87 Skybolt (redirect from Skybolt missile)
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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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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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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An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range greater than 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi), primarily designed for nuclear...
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system Blowpipe UK Man portable Surface-to-air Blue Steel nuclear stand off missile (United Kingdom) Blue Streak (United Kingdom) Bofors Bantam BrahMos...
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