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Registration: NONE

Construction Number: None

Code Number: unknown

Military Unit: unknown

Model Hawker Siddeley Blue Steel

Operator: Midland Air Museum

Airport: Coventry - Baginton (CVT / EGBE), UK - England

Photographer: Frank Barnett-Jones

Date Taken: 1991

Date Submitted: 10/04/2007

Blue Steel was developed as a rocket power stand off missile for the V-Force to meet OR1132. It entered service in 1961 and retired in 1967 as the Polaris took over as the UK deterrent.

Picture ID:1049525

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