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    The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN). Designed and initially produced by...
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    The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British low-level attack aircraft that served with the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Air Force (RAF) between 1962 and 1994, and...
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  • of the Buccaneer for the Royal Navy. Not built. Blackburn B-117 (1960) – Design proposal for a high attitude fighter version of the Buccaneer. Not built...
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  • ultra-light amphibious aircraft Blackburn Buccaneer, a British-built strike aircraft, in service from 1962 to 1994 Brewster SB2A Buccaneer, a US close support aircraft...
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    was used on the Royal Air Force V bombers force and the Royal Navy Blackburn Buccaneer when used in the nuclear strike role. Nuclear bombers were given...
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    Princess Alexandra opened a new officers mess in July 1965. The Blackburn Buccaneer arrived in March 1961 when No. 700Z Naval Air Squadron was created...
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    at very low level. The winning design was the Blackburn Buccaneer. The first version of the Buccaneer, the S.1 powered by the de Havilland Gyron Junior...
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    costs and development times increased. The replacements included the Blackburn Buccaneer and McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, both of which had previously...
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  • The Blackburn Buccaneers are a recreational ice hockey team who play their home games from Blackburn Ice Arena. Registered with the EIHA, they play non-checking...
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  • still-under-development Blackburn Buccaneer. The rising weight made it too heavy for the existing Gannets, and the Buccaneer had enough performance to...
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    looking for a replacement for its Avro Vulcan strategic bomber and Blackburn Buccaneer strike aircraft. Britain and France had initiated the BAC/Dassault...
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    strike aircraft, including the Avro Vulcan, de Havilland Sea Vixen, Blackburn Buccaneer, SEPECAT Jaguar, and Panavia Tornado. The Royal Navy Sea Harrier...
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  • 1988. Sidewinder - Short-range air-to-air missile. Carried by the Blackburn Buccaneer and British Aerospace Harrier II, Hawker Siddeley Harrier, Hawker...
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    missile, AJ 168. The aircraft that used these missiles were the Blackburn Buccaneer (up to three TV or four ARM variant), the SEPECAT Jaguar (two), the...
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    radio system. The weapons officer in the aircraft, normally the Blackburn Buccaneer, used the image to guide the missile via signals sent back to the...
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  • Suez Crisis, 809 was disbanded in 1959. Reformed in 1963 to fly Blackburn Buccaneers, the squadron was disbanded briefly in 1965–66, and then again in...
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    replaced in service by newer and more capable aircraft such as the Blackburn Buccaneer. The Scimitar stemmed from a number of designs produced by Supermarine...
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    the Blackburn Buccaneer S.1 twin-engined Naval strike aircraft. The engine was rather unreliable and considered short of thrust. The later Buccaneer S.2...
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  • carrier-based attack aircraft to possibly replace or complement the Blackburn Buccaneer aircraft. The design was to use variable-sweep wings, lift engines...
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    the Cold War, hosting Handley Page Victors and Hawker Siddeley (Blackburn) Buccaneers. RAF Honington has been the RAF Regiment depot since 1994. Construction...
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    electronic countermeasures (ECM) pod used on aircraft such as the Blackburn Buccaneer at RAF Honington. It was also used in the Falklands War by the Avro...
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  • 2024. "Blackburn Buccaneer". BAE Systems. Retrieved 1 August 2023. "Blackburn B37 Firebrand". BAE Systems. Retrieved 1 August 2023. "Blackburn B-48 Firecrest"...
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    2 and later the SEPECAT Jaguars; and 15 and 16 Squadrons flying Blackburn Buccaneer S.2Bs. These squadrons all moved onto the Panavia Tornado with four...
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  • of the Blackburn Buccaneer strike aircraft, only Ark Royal and Eagle were realistically big enough to accommodate both a squadron of Buccaneers (up to...
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  • Dragonfly HR.5 WH991 Cold War BAC Jet Provost T.4 XP640 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2 XN974 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B XX901 British Aerospace Harrier GR.3 XV748 British...
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  • force and by Supermarine Scimitars, de Havilland Sea Vixens, and Blackburn Buccaneers of the Royal Navy's (RN) Fleet Air Arm (FAA). Developed to Operational...
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  • ageing types then in service with the SAAF, such as the British-built Blackburn Buccaneer, French-built Mirage IIIs, and the Atlas Cheetahs. A key objective...
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    cruiser, they responded in a non-linear fashion by introducing the Blackburn Buccaneer aircraft to attack them. Further improving the capabilities of aircraft...
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    Jet-powered examples were relatively rare but not unknown, such as the Blackburn Buccaneer. The U.S. Navy continued to introduce new aircraft in their A-series...
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  • last Argosy was built in 1965. Buccaneer (1958) – originated as the Blackburn Buccaneer. Hawker Siddeley built the Buccaneer for the Royal Navy, plus the...
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