swingfire missile

  1. Michel Van

    Overthrow MBT

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBih8GFtfc
    • Michel Van
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    • british aircraft corporation cold war great britain heavy tank mobil missile base swingfire missile tank the armoured archives very big tank
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    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  2. M

    Orange William to Swingfire?

    A previous thread suggested that Orange William fed into Swingfire. I am not sure how this might be. OW was a command-guided weapon using a complex two-sight system, a computer, and IR links to the missile to control its flight through rear-mounted control surfaces. The rest of the system was...
  3. Grey Havoc

    G.S.O.R. 1008.

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LRdmSgUDaQ Looks like the requirement was for a heavily protected defence orientated tank, employing ambush tactics (similar in a number of respects to the S-Tank), for use by the British Army On the Rhine (BAOR). IIRC, default NATO strategy in the event...
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    • 1960s cold war general staff operational requirement gsor 1008 liquid armour ministry of defence swingfire missile the armoured archives united kingdom
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    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  4. JFC Fuller

    Inswing / 'medium-range Swingfire' (Not Beeswing!)

    I have come across a couple of references to an infantry version of Swingfire that seems to have not been Beeswing (regular Swingfire mounted in a rack on a Land rover or trailer). Kenneth Macksey makes reference to it in 'The Tanks; The History of the Royal Tank Regiment, 1945-1975' in which he...
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