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    Blue Streak (OR.1139) development

    Mystery UK Missile? Document referring to 1955 talk/discussions in Australia in which it was suggested that a total of twenty-five rounds be allocated as backup and practice rounds to support seven nuclear tipped hard site (silo based) operational missiles to be deployed by the Australians...
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    • air ministry british commonwealth cold war commonwealth of australia great britain icbm medium range ballistic missile ministry of supply missile silo nuclear battlefield or.1139 raf bomber command royal air force
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    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
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    Blue Streak ballistic missile

    In an article for Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, on UK launchers, Nicholas Hill comments on the slow development of Blue Streak compared to its US and Soviet counterparts. He says 'A figure of seventeen months is often quoted for the time from inception to first flight for the...
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    • air ministry british commonwealth cold war great britain icbm medium range ballistic missile ministry of supply north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield or.1139 raf bomber command royal air force
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    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
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