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De Havilland Double Spectre

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, X001-2133

Liquid fuelled rocket motor, consisting of two de Havilland Spectre engines mounted one above the other.

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English Electric Thunderbird missile cradle

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1987/0055/O

This is a specific to type mounting cradle to support a Thunderbird surface to air missile.

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Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1

Aircraft & Exhibits, APR 1962-APR 1988, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1988/0098/A

The Argosy was a medium range transport, paratroop and supply aircraft. Powered by four Rolls-Royce Dart turbojet engines, and with a distinctive twin boom tailplane design, it became known as the “Whistling Wheelbarrow” in RAF service.

Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C Mk1 from elevated position., © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

RAF Flying Helmet Type G

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Four, 77/U/705

Blue-grey fabric helmet with internal, padded leather telephone holders retained by press-studs.

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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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