The English Electric Thunderbird was a British surface-to-air missile produced for the British Army. Thunderbird was primarily intended to attack higher...
16 KB (1,840 words) - 21:53, 2 May 2024
Lightning (1954) English Electric P.10 (unbuilt supersonic bomber to OR.330/R.156). Manned spacecraft MUSTARD Guided weapons Thunderbird (1959) – surface-to-air...
36 KB (3,953 words) - 16:25, 6 May 2024
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 was...
111 KB (14,319 words) - 22:29, 19 May 2024
much in common with the English Electric Thunderbird, including some of the radar systems and guidance features. Thunderbird was smaller and much more...
39 KB (5,057 words) - 14:46, 11 May 2024
missile Sea Slug missile Sea Wolf missile Starstreak missile English Electric Thunderbird Sea Cat/Tiger Cat missile Sea Dart missile Sea Ceptor CAMM (missile...
13 KB (1,366 words) - 13:35, 12 May 2024
English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1960. Bristol, English Electric and...
29 KB (3,350 words) - 17:12, 18 May 2024
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...
37 KB (4,588 words) - 04:41, 14 May 2024
original Kh-28 could only target the MIM-14 Nike-Hercules and English Electric Thunderbird SAM systems, although the Filin could recognise other frequencies...
10 KB (994 words) - 22:33, 14 May 2024
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...
33 KB (3,285 words) - 16:54, 18 May 2024
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...
11 KB (793 words) - 16:37, 14 March 2024
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...
61 KB (8,038 words) - 11:26, 3 May 2024
drone was used in the development of the Bristol Bloodhound, English Electric Thunderbird, and Seaslug surface-to-air missiles, and the de Havilland Firestreak...
17 KB (1,561 words) - 05:34, 16 May 2024
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...
7 KB (1,061 words) - 14:35, 26 February 2023
with nine others passing into "suspended animation" as new English Electric Thunderbird Surface to Air Missile units replaced them. On 20 December 1955...
60 KB (7,693 words) - 17:49, 21 May 2024
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...
48 KB (6,285 words) - 08:31, 24 February 2024
The Royal Enfield Thunderbird is a cruiser style motorcycle produced by Royal Enfield Motors in India. The Royal Enfield Thunderbird is known as Royal...
8 KB (918 words) - 11:29, 19 August 2023
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...
41 KB (5,384 words) - 14:57, 16 April 2024
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...
10 KB (1,017 words) - 13:39, 2 May 2023
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...
10 KB (1,223 words) - 00:49, 13 November 2023
River (radar), a CW Radar used with the Bristol Bloodhound and English Electric Thunderbird surface to air missiles This disambiguation page lists articles...
224 bytes (63 words) - 14:17, 13 July 2021
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...
29 KB (4,477 words) - 23:19, 24 April 2024
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...
60 KB (8,837 words) - 12:37, 10 April 2024
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...
38 KB (5,433 words) - 08:37, 25 July 2023
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...
9 KB (1,088 words) - 09:42, 22 December 2022
the Mark III shared its chassis underpinnings with the four door Ford Thunderbird. Model-specific design elements, including hidden headlamps (with body-color...
19 KB (2,447 words) - 17:00, 29 April 2024
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...
80 KB (6,048 words) - 22:49, 29 April 2024
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...
23 KB (2,471 words) - 08:10, 7 May 2024
Loverboy "My Kinda Lover" - Billy Squier "Tuff Enuff" - The Fabulous Thunderbirds "Goodbye to You" - Scandal "Heartbreaker" - Pat Benatar "Stone Cold"...
32 KB (3,238 words) - 23:18, 8 January 2024
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...
6 KB (432 words) - 23:43, 5 January 2024
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...
51 KB (5,993 words) - 03:08, 19 May 2024