The English Electric Thunderbird was a British surface-to-air missile produced for the British Army. Thunderbird was primarily intended to attack higher...
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Lightning (1954) English Electric P.10 (unbuilt supersonic bomber to OR.330/R.156). Manned spacecraft MUSTARD Guided weapons Thunderbird (1959) – surface-to-air...
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The English Electric Lightning is a British fighter aircraft that served as an interceptor during the 1960s, the 1970s and into the late 1980s. It is capable...
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much in common with the English Electric Thunderbird, including some of the radar systems and guidance features. Thunderbird was smaller and much more...
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missile Sea Slug missile Sea Wolf missile Starstreak missile English Electric Thunderbird Sea Cat/Tiger Cat missile Sea Dart missile Sea Ceptor CAMM (missile...
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emerged as the RAF's Bristol Bloodhound in 1958, and the Army's English Electric Thunderbird in 1959. A third design followed the American Bumblebee efforts...
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Rainbow Code (category Use British English from February 2015)
continuous wave radar, used with the Bristol Bloodhound and English Electric Thunderbird SAMs Indigo Hammer, formerly Blue Fox – nuclear weapon Jade River...
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British Aircraft Corporation (category Use British English from April 2016)
missile In addition BAC continued with the Bristol Bloodhound and English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air missiles. BAC was involved in uncrewed spacecraft...
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Royal Air Force Museum Midlands (category Use British English from February 2023)
includes several developmental aircraft such as those that led to the English Electric Lightning and the second prototype of the BAC TSR-2. A lot of the aircraft...
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S-75 Dvina (SA-2) from the USSR,[citation not found] and the English Electric Thunderbird in the UK. Even as the Nike was undergoing testing, planners...
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development on both projects ended in favour of the much more powerful English Electric Thunderbird, which had little in common with either project. Brakemine would...
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Rapier (missile) (category Use British English from October 2017)
36regimentra.org.uk Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine, English Electric Thunderbird Project Details "Sky Sabre weapons system - a Freedom of Information...
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drone was used in the development of the Bristol Bloodhound, English Electric Thunderbird, and Seaslug surface-to-air missiles, and the de Havilland Firestreak...
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original Kh-28 could only target the MIM-14 Nike-Hercules and English Electric Thunderbird SAM systems, although the Filin could recognise other frequencies...
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MIM-3 Nike Ajax (category Use American English from March 2014)
MIM-14 Nike Hercules and LIM-49 Nike Zeus, Ajax's successors. English Electric Thunderbird and Bristol Bloodhound, UK counterparts S-25 Berkut and S-75...
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with nine others passing into "suspended animation" as new English Electric Thunderbird Surface to Air Missile units replaced them. On 20 December 1955...
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The Royal Enfield Thunderbird is a cruiser style motorcycle produced by Royal Enfield Motors in India. The Royal Enfield Thunderbird is known as Royal...
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River (radar), a CW Radar used with the Bristol Bloodhound and English Electric Thunderbird surface to air missiles This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Muckleburgh Collection (category Use British English from February 2018)
Konkurs Wire-guided AT 9M37M Strela 10 SAM Bristol Bloodhound Mk2 English Electric Thunderbird Mk2 Replica Fieseler Fi 103 (V1 Doodlebug) with a section of...
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AMES Type 88/89, a tactical control radar developed for the English Electric Thunderbird missiles, which would be available in 1971 as the UK drew down...
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The Triumph TR65 Thunderbird is a motorcycle made by the Triumph worker's co-operative at the Meriden factory from 1981 to 1983. The TR65 was a reintroduction...
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missile, with some early work showing a design more similar to the English Electric Thunderbird in basic form, using a solid fuel rocket sustainer and traditional...
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general wind-down of AA in favour of guided missiles like the English Electric Thunderbird, all remaining SLC systems were removed from service in 1955...
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Bristol Aerojet (category Use British English from December 2016)
de Havilland Firestreak PERME design Albatross sustainer for English Electric Thunderbird Bantam for Sea Skua Blackcap boost motor for Sea Wolf missile...
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DB Cargo UK (redirect from English Welsh and Scottish Railway)
Wales, Chiltern Railways and First ScotRail. Class 67s are also used as Thunderbird rescue locomotives for London North Eastern Railway. EWS also provides...
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Bass guitar (redirect from Electric bass)
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (/beɪs/) is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in...
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Ford Explorer EV (redirect from Ford Explorer Electric)
The Ford Explorer is a battery electric compact crossover SUV (C-segment) produced by Ford through its European operations. Produced in the Cologne Body...
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Ford F-150 Lightning (redirect from Ford F-150 Electric Pickup)
The Ford F-150 Lightning is a battery electric full-size light duty truck unveiled by Ford Motor Company in May 2021 as part of the fourteenth generation...
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Robert Lee Jun-fai (redirect from The Thunderbirds (Hong Kong))
film actor. Lee was the founder of a Hong Kong beat band called The Thunderbirds, a beat group in the same Hong Kong/Macau musical scene as Danny Diaz...
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Gerry Anderson (category Use British English from May 2013)
1960s. In the mid-1960s Anderson produced his most successful series, Thunderbirds. Other television productions of the period included Stingray, Captain...
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