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  1. uk 75

    Air Defence of Great Britain

    Ever since the first Zeppelin raids in World War 1 the vulnerability of the civilian population of the UK to attack from the air has been a major factor in shaping our armed forces. The tile "Air Defence of Great Britain" comes from the organisation set up to meet the only air threat imagined in...
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    • Forum: The Bar
  2. uk 75

    UK Air Defence

    Nothing in military history has given the RAF such a hold on the public imagination as the gallant Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of the Battle of Britain. Sadly in the postwar nuclear world their successors have only been tasked with wartime defence of key military infrastructure in the UK. It...
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    • air combat interceptors air defence british army british isles cold war cold war ii no. 11 group raf north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield post-cold war raf fighter command raf regiment raf strike command royal air force royal artillery royal navy royal observer corps surface-to-air missile uk air defence region united kingdom air forces
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  3. Z

    Fairey Delta 2, not the English Electric Lightning

    Request for a pure research machine April '49. May '50 ordered prototypes. ER.100 Contract placed October ER.103 Gannet Superpriority delayed work. construction summer 1952. First flight 28 Oct 1955. Assuming a supersonic fighter is produced based on this research.
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    • air defence cold war fighter bomber great britain interceptors nuclear battlefield raf fighter command royal air force strategic defence uk air defence region
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  4. JFC Fuller

    RAF 1990s

    220 Tornado IDS; replacing 7 Squadrons (6 from 1981) of Vulcan B.2 (56 in total), 5 squadrons of Jaguar and 2 squadrons of RAF Germany Buccaneers: 11 squadrons planned as of 1985 of which 2 were to be recce. there was ultimately a try-national training unit and the TWCU. 165 Tornado ADV...
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    • 1990s alternate history cold war great britain north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield raf germany raf strike command raf support command royal air force tactical nuke uk air defence region wall not fallen
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  5. Nick

    UK AEW 1980s replacement competition

    Back in the 80s it was finally realised that the Avro Shackleton AEW was obsolete and later that the Nimrod AEW.3 project was very unlikely to work correctly. The UK Government and MoD went looking for a replacement and settled on the E-3D Sentry which entered RAF service in 1990. What were the...
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    • air defence airborne early warning awacs cold war great britain late 1980s north atlantic treaty organisation raf strike command royal air force uk air defence region
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  6. Mike Pryce

    BAe Nimrod AEW.3

    The preferred UK AEW for the RAF was always the Nimrod as it was big and in production. In 1966 studies looked at various radar options, but lack of money delayed it. All of the above comes from 'Airborne Early Warning, design, development and operations' by Mike Hirst, Osprey, 1983.
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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    British AEW Projects

    When the UK decided to develop an AEW version of the Nimrod, was there any attempt to make a copy of the Hawkeye and Sentry but with British developed mast mounted rotating radar and computers or did the designers go straight to the fore and aft mounted radars? There is an interesting history...
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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