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The de Havilland Propellers Blue Streak was a British Intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), and later the first stage of the Europa satellite launch vehicle. Blue Streak was cancelled without entering full production.
May 10, 2006 · Release date: 1964 | Sponsor: Central Office of Information for Foreign Office and Commonwealth Relations Office. In 1955, Britain began developing a long-range liquid-fuelled missile, the Blue...
May 24, 2017 · Blue Streak started life ten years earlier as a top secret military programme. With Cold War tensions high, Britain and the United States forged a plan to develop missiles that could reach targets within the Soviet Union. Britain called their missile Blue Streak.
Jan 12, 2004 · The government, which was struggling to keep up with the nuclear arms race, decided the US-built, submarine-launched Polaris system would be less vulnerable to attack than the land-based Blue...
Jan 27, 2020 · The move to use ballistic missile technology instead of aircraft delivery of atomic devises wasn’t a big secret, but the Russian’s test of August 12, 1953 of a thermonuclear device caught the US by surprise.
In 1955, Britain began developing a long-range liquid-fueled missile, the Blue Streak. Although initial concepts included an inter-continental range missile [ICBM], work soon focused on an...
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Nov 27, 2019 · Construction on the site began in 1957 and it closed fully in April 1972 with the termination of the European Launcher Development Organisation, which used Blue Streak as the first stage of its satellite launcher.
