 Thunderbird in displayed in Finnish Anti-aircraft museum (Ilmatorjuntamuseo) in Tuusula.
 Thunderbird in displayed in Finnish Anti-aircraft museum (Ilmatorjuntamuseo) in Tuusula. Thunderbird was a British surface to air missile produced for the British Army. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (750x1000, 506 KB) British Thunderbird surface-to-air missile, displayed in Finnish Anti-aircraft museum (Ilmatorjuntamuseo) in Tuusula. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (750x1000, 506 KB) British Thunderbird surface-to-air missile, displayed in Finnish Anti-aircraft museum (Ilmatorjuntamuseo) in Tuusula. ...
Tuusula (IPA: /ˈtuËsulÉ‘/), or Tusby in Swedish is a municipality of Finland. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (750x1000, 424 KB) British Thunderbird surface-to-air missile, displayed in Finnish Anti-aircraft museum (Ilmatorjuntamuseo) in Tuusula. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (750x1000, 424 KB) British Thunderbird surface-to-air missile, displayed in Finnish Anti-aircraft museum (Ilmatorjuntamuseo) in Tuusula. ...
Tuusula (IPA: /ˈtuËsulÉ‘/), or Tusby in Swedish is a municipality of Finland. ...
A surface-to-air missile (SAM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft. ...
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
Background
The Thunderbird originated in a proposal to English Electric in 1949 to develop a missile to provide air defence to the British Army operating in the field away from fixed bases. As such, it was intended to replace the anti aircraft artillery which had fulfilled this role during World War II. English Electric created a Guided Weapons Division to work on the project. The project was randomly assigned the name "Red Shoes" by the Ministry of Supply. English Electric logo English Electric was a 20th-century British industrial manufacturer, initially of electric motors, and expanding to include railway locomotives and aviation, before becoming part of GEC. // History 1917: Dick, Kerr & Co. ...
1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
The Rainbow Codes were a series of code names used to disguise the nature of various British military research projects from after the Second World War until 1958 when they were replaced by an alphanumeric code system. ...
The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK Government formed in 1939 to co-ordinate the supplying of equipment to the British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply. ...
The test programme involved a few development vehicles. The D1 and D2 established some of the basic configuration issues, whilst the D3 and D4 were used to test the aerodynamics of the design. Four boost rockets were used to launch the missile, with a sustainer engine powering it to the target. The sustainer was to be a liquid fuel rocket engine, but the Army rejected this idea because of the difficulty in handling the highly reactive liquid fuel in the field and a solid rocket sustainer was chosen instead. Several different models of sustainer were tried. The missile was to be guided by semi active radar homing via a "Yellow River" AMES Type 83 pulsed radar. A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine. ...
AMES or Air Ministry Experimental Station was the way of identifying RAF radar types during World War II AMES Type 1, Chain Home (CH) AMES Type 2, Chain Home Low (CHL) AMES Type 3, Type 1 and Type 2 operating in close proximity AMES Type 4, Overseas Chain Home, also...
This long range RADAR antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll[1]. RADAR is a system that uses radio waves to determine and map the location, direction, and/or speed...
When the production missile entered service with the Army in 1959 it was officially named Thunderbird. It was the first British designed and produced missile to go into service with the British Army. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Thunderbird was primarily intended to attack higher altitude targets at ranges of up to thirty miles or so. AA guns were still used for lower altitude threats. American troops man an anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943 Anti-aircraft warfare, or air defense, is any method of engaging military aircraft in combat from the ground. ...
One of the missiles is now displayed outside the Midlands Air Museum at Coventry Airport in Baginton, England.
Variants An upgraded model was produced with an improved AMES Type 86 continuous wave radar. This gave greatly increased ability against low level targets and much improved performance in the face of electronic countermeasures. The improved missile was known in service as Thunderbird 2. Continuous-wave radar system is a radar system where a continuous-wave is transmitted by one antenna and a second receives the radio energy reflected from an object. ...
Foreign Users - The Thunderbird 1 was purchased by Saudi Arabia, with 37 second-hand missiles purchased in 1967.
- Finland planned to purchase either the Thunderbird or Bloodhound missile in the early 1960s. The sale ultimately did not go ahead, but the country did take delivery of some training systems which are still displayed in a Museum.
Negotiations were also held with Libya and Zambia. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
Specifications - Length : 6.35 m
- Body Diameter : 0.527 m
- Fin Span : 1.63 m
- Warheads : Continuous HE rod
- Range : 75 km
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