Engineering Britain’s Superweapons – 03 – Blue Streak (2009)
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- /// Runtime: 50 Minutes
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While having access to nuclear bombs provides an immense advantage – they are still limited by the method of delivery – which for Britain in the early 1950s was the V-bomber.
Ballistic missiles provided the more effective solution, capapble of carrying nuclear warheads over vast distances, even between continents.
So in 1954, Britain began the development of Blue Streak, a mid-range ballistic missile capable of launching nuclear strikes at ranges of up to 3700 km.
