Blue Water
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- see also Bluewater (disambiguation)
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 Range Ballistic Missile (SRBM) that was developed during the 1950’s and was cancelled in 1962 having completed several test flights/ trials.
This missile was 25 ft (7.6 m) in length and weighed-in at 3000 lb (1361 Kg).
Originally called Red Rose and was to be fitted with a 10 kiloton nuclear warhead under development at AWRE. Codenamed ‘Tony’, this was a UK version of the US W44 Tsetse primary.
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 (88.5 km). However, it was also to be used in RAF service on the ill-fated BAC TSR-2 aircraft in the stand-off attack role.
Although the modified Cuckoo solid rocket 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),
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