Shorts Tigercat

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From the French Aviation Magazine, July 1960, a picture showing a proposed
version of the Shorts Tigercat:
 

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Here is another drawing of the Centurion-based Tigercat launcher. It seems the system might have an all-weather (at least 'dark fire' if not blind-fire) capability: note the radome of what could have been a tracking radar.

Btw do you have any idea whether there was a blind-fire version of the towed Tigercat ever envisaged or developed (afaik such a version has never seen service).

Piotr
 

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