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    The Vickers Vigilant was a British 1960s era MCLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile used by the British Army. It was also licence-built in the United States...
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  • Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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  • The Vickers Vigilant was a 1920 project to build a British 100-seat flying boat designed by Vickers for transatlantic and Australian flights. The flying...
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  • Sudan Vigilant behavior, a personality trait Grob Vigilant, a glider manufactured by Grob Aerospace of Mindelheim Mattsies of Germany Vickers Vigilant, a...
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  • to both visually track the target and fly the missile manually. The Vickers Vigilant attempted to solve this by using a "velocity control" method with an...
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    The Vickers MBT is a series of main battle tanks (MBTs) developed as a private venture by British company Vickers-Armstrongs for export. The design makes...
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    1954, and was in service from 1958 until gradually replaced by the Vickers Vigilant missile in the late 1960s. It was intended to be light enough to deploy...
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    production in Germany. 1955 SS.10 enters service with the French army. 1956 Vickers Vigilant enters service with the British army and SS.11 with the French army...
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    1954, and was in service from 1958 until gradually replaced by the Vickers Vigilant missile in the late 1960s. It was intended to be light enough to deploy...
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    man-portable weapon was also being developed, the Vickers Vigilant. Based on the experience with Malkara, Vigilant introduced a much improved guidance system...
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  • anti-armor missile) Malkara NLAW Swingfire Brimstone (air-launched) Vickers Vigilant M47 Dragon (no longer in service) Javelin (in service) SRAW (no longer...
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  • Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1960. Bristol, English Electric and Vickers became "parents"...
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    missile, the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent. Vigilant was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd (now BAE Systems...
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    The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee...
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    through a tractor propeller, and was armed with a single belt-fed Vickers gun. Vickers continued to pursue the development of armed pusher biplanes, and...
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    The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown at...
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    Wellington, the other being the Vickers Wellesley. A larger heavy bomber aircraft designed to Specification B.1/35, the Vickers Warwick, was developed in parallel...
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    Range: 300 to 2,000 m Speed: 85 m/s Warhead: 1.14 kg shaped charge Vickers Vigilant – (United Kingdom) Brassey's Infantry Weapons of the World, J.I.H....
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    with the letter "V". Vickers' submission had initially been rejected as not being as advanced as the Victor and the Vulcan, but Vickers' chief designer George...
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    A new design emerged, combining the guidance system of the small Vickers Vigilant with a new and highly maneuverable missile to produce Swingfire. The...
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    The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft developed and manufactured by Vickers Limited. Developed during the latter stages of the First World...
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  • Quantity Image Details Vickers 6-Ton  United Kingdom Light tank 32 units In use 1933 to 1959. Vickers-Carden-Lloyd Model 1933 Vickers-Carden-Lloyd Mk VI  United...
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    |journal= (help) Mann (1957), p. 35. "Vickers Vigilant". Flight: 716–717. 22 May 1959., Cutaway drawing of Vigilant missile's main components Brassey's...
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  • The Vickers VC.1 Viking is a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited...
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  • Metropolitan-Vickers, then merging the remaining bulk of the original business with Armstrong Whitworth to form Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vickers name resurfaced...
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    The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vanguard...
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    four vessels: Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance, built between 1986 and 1999 at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, now...
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  • antitank missile Thunderbird Tigercat UB.109T cruise missile (cancelled) Vickers Vigilant US DoD 4120 Mission Design Series (MDS) Designators and Symbols for...
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  • designed and manufactured by Vickers-Armstrongs during the late 1930s. It was intended to serve as a larger counterpart to the Vickers Wellington bomber. The...
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    Later versions of the aircraft were known as the Vickers Vulture and Vickers Vanellus. Research on Vickers' first amphibious aircraft type began in December...
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