Blue Water
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Blue Water was a code name for a British nuclear missile under development in the 1960s. Blue Water, like Blue Streak, was a planned homegrown nuclear deterrent for use against the Soviet Union. Unlike Blue Streak, Blue Water was envisaged as a surface to surface missile to be used against ground troops: a battlefield nuclear weapon. Blue Water was planned to be operational by 1966 but in 1962 Prime Minister Harold Macmillan scrapped the project.
The English Electric Blue-water Short Rang Ballistic Missile (SRBM) that was developed during the 1950’s and was cancelled in 1962 having completed several test flights/ trials.
This missile was 25ft (7.6m) in length and Weighed in at 3000lb (1361Kg).
Originally called Red Rose and was to be fitted with a 10 kilo-tonne nuclear warhead under development at AWRE (Aldermaston?), Codenamed ‘Tony’.
This missile was intended to provide a mobile short range Nuclear capability for the British Army and it had a range of approx 55 miles (88.5Km). Although the modified cuckoo rocket solid motor was made by Bristol Aerojet, was designed by the Propellant and Explosives Research and Manufacturing Establishment (PERME) to give a thrust of 1700lb (7.6KN),
However, it was also to be used in RAF service on the ill-fated BAC TSR-2 aircraft in the stand-off attack role.
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