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Directional Infra-Red Countermeasures (DIRCM) turret

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 2000, Cosford, Hangar Four, X005-2775

Missile countermeasures item consisting of a Directional Infra-Red Countermeasures (DIRCM) turret and AAQ-24 Transmitter.

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ASA (American) 0.5in standard ammunition box

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, X001-1614

Ammunition box container for a belt of .50in calibre M2 machine gun cartridges.

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McDonnell Douglas DATM-84A-1C Harpoon

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, X004-4394

The AGM-84 is an air launched anti-ship cruise missile powered by a Teledyne turbo jet engine. This DATM-84 Harpoon is “Dummy Air Training Missile” version of an AGM-84. Not fitted with a warhead or engine, it is nevertheless identical in size, shape and weight to the operational variant, and is used to train ground staff in missile handling techniques.

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Hawker-Siddeley AJ-168 TV Martel

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1987/0066/O

Television-guided air-launched anti-ship missile. Martel was a joint programme between France and the UK to produce an air-launched anti-ship missile. Two versions were built, the AS-37 anti-radiation missile and the AJ-168 television guided missile, although the French only used the former. Development began in 1964 and Martel entered Royal Naval service in 1970.

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Hai Ying 2G Seersucker

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1997/0104/O

Based on the Soviet T-15 Termit anti-ship missile, the Silkworm range of missiles (of which Seersucker was a variant) were developed by the People’s Republic of China in the 1960s.

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British Aircraft Corporation Swingfire

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1987/0244/O

Swingfire was a wire-guided anti-tank missile developed for the British Army by the British Aircraft Corporation. It entered service in 1969 and proved a successful weapon, only being superceded by the Javelin system in 2005

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Target folder, operation number GO. 1141, Erfurt, 1941-1943

Archives, In Storage, AC84/1/2/69

Target information folder prepared by the Air Ministry Target Section giving details of the electric power station at Erfurt.

Target folder, operation number GO. 1141, Erfurt, 1941-1943 | AC84/1/2/69, Crown

British Aerospace Rapier

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1987/0069/O

The Rapier is a short-range, surface-to-air missile airfield defence system developed for the RAF Regiment and the British Army. Entering Army service in 1971, in 1974 it replaced the Bofors guns and Tigercat missiles of the RAF Regiment to become the UK's primary low-altitude air defence weapon.

British Aerospace Rapier | 1987/0069/O, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

British Aerospace Dynamics Sea Skua air-to-surface missile

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, 85/O/893

Helicopter-launched, semi-active radar homing solid-fuel anti-ship missile. Produced by British Aerospace the Sea Skua equipped the Royal Navy’s Westland Lynx helicopters. Entering service in 1982 it was replaced by Sea Venom by 2017.

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Target folder, operation number GO. 1132, Berlin, 1942-1944 {cg}

Archives, In Storage, AC84/1/2/68

Target information folder prepared by the Air Ministry Target Section giving details of the power station at Klingenberg, Berlin.

Target folder, operation number GO. 1132, Berlin, 1942-1944 {cg} | AC84/1/2/68, Crown

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