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    Seacat was a British short-range surface-to-air missile system intended to replace the ubiquitous Bofors 40 mm gun aboard warships of all sizes. It was...
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  • Seacat or SeaCat may refer to: Seacat missile, a short-range surface-to-air missile system SeaCat (1992–2004), ferry company formerly operating from between...
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    features planned are a long-range air warning radar, the Seacat anti-aircraft guided missile, improved anti-submarine detection equipment and a light-weight...
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    earliest point-defence missile used by the Royal Navy was the Seacat, which had been rapidly developed from an earlier anti-tank missile design, the Malkara...
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    prevented the missile from striking the ship's side and penetrating the hull; instead, it hit the deck coaming at an angle, near the port Seacat missile launcher...
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    basic form was later adapted for the short-range surface-to-air role as the Seacat and influenced the development of the Ikara. Design was principally undertaken...
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  • Hellcats for short) Short Hellcat, a planned air-to-surface variant of the Seacat missile Springfield Armory Hellcat, a 9mm pistol made by Springfield Armory...
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  • HMS Orestes (J277) was an Algerine-class minesweeper, sunk as a target in Seacat missile trials. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar...
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    the NATO North Atlantic sphere with the only update the fitting of Seacat missiles to all by 1977, limited by their single propeller and low speed of...
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    her air group that Eagle did not have. She was also fitted for four Seacat missile launchers, which were never installed, so she emerged from refit with...
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    included removing the after 6 inch mount and 3 inch mounts, installing two Seacat missile GWS 22 mounts, and building a flight deck and hangar to operate four...
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    Eagle would have her anti-aircraft guns removed and replaced by the Seacat missile system, though her aft four 4.5 inch gun turrets were retained, and...
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    facilities for a Westland Wasp helicopter, anti-ship missiles and two triple lightweight Seacat missile launchers. When plans for the new Libyan frigate Dat...
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    Свободная Пресса" (in Russian). 14 October 2018. Davies p. 72-74 "SEACAT – The Guided Missile To Defend Small Ships" Archived 2013-11-01 at the Wayback Machine...
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    development of the Tigercat system in 1967, an adaptation of the Seacat naval surface-to-air missile system. Tigercat was similar to Rapier in basic concept,...
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    struck and Llandaff was sold to Bangladesh by the end of 1976. The Seacat missile-fitted Type 61s had a life extension in 1976, due to the Cod War confrontations...
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    control radars (the Italian Selenia RTX-10X) directed the ship's gun and the Seacat, while a Type 184M medium range search sonar and a Type 162M bottom search...
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    the ship. Close-in anti-aircraft protection was provided by a pair of Seacat missile launchers, while two twin QF 4.5 inch Mark V gun mounts were fitted...
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    the ship. Close-in anti-aircraft protection was provided by a pair of Seacat missile launchers, while two twin QF 4.5 inch Mark V gun mounts were fitted...
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    ship. Close-in anti-aircraft protection was provided by a pair of Seacat (missile) launchers, while two twin QF 4.5 inch Mark V gun mounts were fitted...
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    anti-aircraft mount aft, but in 1957 it was decided to fit the Seacat anti-aircraft missile instead. Seacat was not yet ready, and Plymouth was completed with a...
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  • Air-to-air missile Air-to-surface missile Anti-radiation missile Anti-ballistic missile Anti-satellite weapon Anti-ship missile (list) Anti-submarine missile Anti-tank...
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    Whitbys) and a modified after deckhouse, enlarged to carry the SeaCat anti-aircraft missile launcher and its associated GWS-20 director and handling rooms...
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    range system) incorporating the Radar Type 903 for fire control. The Seacat missile launcher was fitted briefly to Decoy for acceptance trials in 1961,...
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  • and speed of a 155mm shell ... Glamorgan launched a Seacat missile which passed close to the missile, however, it skipped onto the flight deck and skidded...
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    the essential manual nature of the 4.5" turret and the ageing Seacat and Seaslug missiles. In the spring and early summer of 1982 Glamorgan was involved...
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  • Seacat - British SAM, ordered in 1969. RIM-24 Tartar - American SAM, ordered 1962. SM-2MR/Block IIIC - American SAM, ordered 2005. Standard-Missile 6...
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  • Although the Seacat missile had been designed with a secondary anti-shipping role, it lacked the range needed to attack the stand-off missiles on the boats...
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    Tribal completed with Seacat missiles; her six sister frigates were built with two 40 mm Bofors guns and fitted with the Seacat system during later refits...
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  • eventually filled by Seacat, a manually-guided system of otherwise similar performance. The concept for a short-range anti-aircraft missile emerged in the late...
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