Navaho Missile in RAF Service Query

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BOMARC A had a range of 250 miles according to it's Wiki page, while BOMARC B, with a solid fuel booster and thus more ramjet fuel, had a range of 440 miles.

The UK was looking at Blue Envoy, which was a very pretty long-range SAGW that was about the same size as a Bloodhound II but with double-delta wings and a range of 150 miles. It was cancelled before any hardware was produced, but it's improved guidance and ramjet technologies were applied to Bloodhound to produce Bloodhound II, doubling it's range and giving it formidable accuracy. Switzerland operated Bloodhound II until 1999.

Pathe Newsreel footage of a Bloodhound test shot with no warhead that still obliterates a Meteor target drone with a direct hit: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/bloodhound-guided-missile-is-launched-at-woomera  My uncle used to work at Ferranti, and he was told by one of the engineers who'd worked on Bloodhound that after a while, they'd been asked to modify the test missiles to make them near-miss the target drones because no data was being recovered due to them being wiped out by direct hits every time. The fact that this was costing a fortune in drones probably had something to do with it as well!


Blue Envoy artwork by Adrian Mann from BSP 4 (found on the web):