A report on Seaslug (missile) and Blue Envoy
It was planned that Seaslug's medium-range role was to be supplanted by a very long-range missile known as Blue Envoy, but this was passed over in favour of a new medium-range system, Sea Dart.
- Seaslug (missile)They started the New Guided Missile Program, or NIGS for short, to replace the existing Seaslug missile on the County-class destroyers with a missile of much higher performance and a fire control system and radar that could track multiple targets, similar to the modern Aegis Combat System.
- Blue Envoy3 related topics with Alpha
Thunderbird (missile)
2 linksBritish surface-to-air missile produced for the British Army.
British surface-to-air missile produced for the British Army.
From their work the LOPGAP experimental design emerged, short for "Liquid Oxygen and Petrol Guided Anti-aircraft Projectile".
The original Red Heathen concept for a much longer-ranged weapon became "Green Sparkler" and then "Blue Envoy", and relegated to Stage 2 deployment in the 1960s along with newer radars and interceptor aircraft.
Bloodhound (missile)
1 linksBritish ramjet powered surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s.
British ramjet powered surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s.
This was part of Stage 1 upgrades to the defensive systems, in the later Stage 2, both Bloodhound and the fighters would be replaced by a longer-range missile code named Blue Envoy.
This was initially known as LOPGAP, for Liquid-Oxygen and Petrol, the proposed fuel.
Rainbow Code
1 linksThe Rainbow Codes were a series of code names used to disguise the nature of various British military research projects.
The Rainbow Codes were a series of code names used to disguise the nature of various British military research projects.
Blue Envoy – surface-to-air missile to OR.1140, replaced Green Sparker as "Stage 2" SAM
Blue Shield – see Armstrong Whitworth Sea Slug