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Thunderbird (missile) [35] – In use till 1977 for mobile high-altitude air defence. Bloodhound (missile) [36] – Fixed air defence in UK from 1958 till 1991. Blowpipe (missile) [37] – Man portable surface-to-air missile from 1975 till 1985; Rapier (missile) [38] – Came into service at the start of 1970s and at the end replaced Bofors and ...
Pages in category "Cold War missiles of the United Kingdom" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The UK Government claimed that there was an 'overriding national interest' in establishing a training range for their newly purchased Corporal, a weapon that was to be at the front line of Cold War defence. Missiles were fired toward designated target coordinates in the Atlantic Ocean.
In 2011, just ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Thor missile site at Harrington was given Grade II listed status as an example of Cold War architecture. As part of the announcement, the Chief Executive of English Heritage , Dr Simon Thurley, said: "The remains of the Cold War are fading from view faster than those ...
The retirement of the B-47s was halted by the Berlin Crisis of 1961, when 48 B-47 bombers and 20 EB-47 electronic warfare stood alert in the UK, and the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year, which saw 56 B-47s and 22 EB-47s on alert in the UK, but it was only a temporary reprieve. [87]
The four-minute warning was a public alert system conceived by the British Government during the Cold War and operated between 1953 and 1992. The name derived from the approximate length of time from the point at which a Soviet nuclear missile attack against the United Kingdom could be confirmed and the impact of those missiles on their targets.
List of Cold War weapons and land equipment of the United Kingdom; List of Operational Requirements for nuclear weapons; List of ROC Group Headquarters and UKWMO Sector controls; List of Royal Observer Corps / United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation Posts
Live Universal Awareness Map, commonly known as Liveuamap, is an internet service to monitor and indicate activities on online geographic maps, particularly of locations with ongoing armed conflicts. [1] It was developed by the Ukrainian software engineers from Dnipro Rodion Rozhkovskiy and Oleksandr Bilchenko. [2]