The Bristol Bloodhound is a British ramjet powered surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s. It served as the UK's main air defence weapon into...
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is also Bloodhound LSR's driver. The Bloodhound project was named for the Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile, a project that Bloodhound Chief Aerodynamicist...
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The Bristol Bloodhound was a British two-seat reconnaissance/fighter aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company as a possible replacement...
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guided missile Blue Anchor – X-band CW target illumination radar for Bristol Bloodhound – a.k.a. AMES Type 86 Blue Badger – truck-mounted nuclear land mine...
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mid-life upgrades, which shared several components with the RAF's Bristol Bloodhound, Thunderbird featured a continuous-wave radar semi-active homing system...
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the storage of bombs. From the late 1950s it was used as a base for Bristol Bloodhound Missiles until 1964 when most of the site was sold off for agriculture...
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represented are: the Bristol Blenheim, the first operational aircraft to fly from RAF West Raynham with No 101 Squadron; the Bristol Bloodhound and BAe Dynamics...
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the Bloodhound anti-aircraft missile. Upon introduction, the Bloodhound was the RAF's only long range transportable surface-to-air missile. Bristol Aero...
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Ripon Bristol Badger Bristol Badminton Bristol Bagshot Bristol Beaver Bristol Bloodhound Bristol Boarhound Bristol Brandon Bristol Bulldog Bristol Bullfinch...
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night-fighter squadron. Between 1963 and 1989, No. 25 Squadron operated the Bristol Bloodhound Surface-to-Air Missile from RAF Brüggen, West Germany and later RAF...
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Engines (later Bristol Siddeley Engines) for the Bristol Bloodhound anti-aircraft missile. Although Bristol Aero Engines acquired ramjet technology from the...
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JAS 39 Gripen. Rb 65: Bristol Bloodhound Mk. I surface-to-air missile. Rb 67: HAWK surface-to-air missile. Rb 68: Bristol Bloodhound Mk. II high-altitude...
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use as both an air force and an army base. RAAF Base Darwin has two Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missiles as gate guardians. A MiG-21 formerly of the...
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meaning 'thief'; the name was used because the system resembled the Bristol Bloodhound. Development of the Krug ZRK-SD (2K11) air defense system started...
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defend the V Force airfields in conjunction with the "last ditch" Bristol Bloodhound missiles located either at the bomber airfield, e.g. at RAF Marham...
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the Sea Dart missile. Unlike the earlier Thor ramjet powering the Bristol Bloodhound missile, Odin is an integral part of the Sea Dart airframe. A biconic...
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the home of a Coastal Command Strike Wing, and from 1958 was a base for Bloodhound surface-to-air missiles, until it closed in 1990. The camp at North Coates...
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SAM) SİPER (Long-range SAM) Dnipro Thunderbird (missile) Blowpipe Bristol Bloodhound Javelin Rapier Sea Cat – United Kingdom Sea Slug Sea Dart Sea Wolf...
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American intermediate range ballistic missile Bristol Thor, a ramjet engine used on the Bristol Bloodhound missile Project Thor, a theoretical US orbital...
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design. The Bloodhound SSC project to break the land speed record is based at the Bloodhound Technology Centre on the city's harbourside. Bristol has two...
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Polsten QF 2 pounder naval gun QF 3.7 inch AA gun 4.5 inch (114 mm) gun Bristol Bloodhound Blowpipe missile Javelin missile Rapier missile Sea Slug missile Sea...
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Admirals and MPs views compared the USN Terrier missilem the RAF Bristol Bloodhound and the British Army's Thunderbird semi-active homing missiles in...
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It was replaced by a shorter range ramjet missile system called the Bloodhound. The system was designed as a second line of defense in case attackers...
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drive turbopumps for the fuel pump on the Bristol Thor ramjet and hydraulic power on the Bristol Bloodhound missile. The cone angle is chosen such that...
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and operated out of Burma and India. It final incarnation was as a Bristol Bloodhound missile unit in the early 1960s. No. 62 Squadron of the Royal Flying...
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capable LOPGAP design, which, after major changes, emerged as the Bristol Bloodhound. A single Brakemine survives in the REME Museum. Brakemine was the...
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on common radar and control units, and these emerged as the RAF's Bristol Bloodhound in 1958, and the Army's English Electric Thunderbird in 1959. A third...
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defence system also procured from the United Kingdom, based on the Bristol Bloodhound. In case of unserviceable airstrips, Swiss Air Force jets would take...
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radar for Bristol Bloodhound – a.k.a. Orange Yeoman – Marconi AMES Type 83, 4 GHz/10 GHz mobile tactical control radar for Bristol Bloodhound 1 – a.k.a...
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