Talk:Bloodhound (missile)

message: I'm not 100% sure but Thorpe Camp Visitor Center has a Bloodhound in the museum.
I have a photo of it which I can post.
Can anyone verify this?
Tanis8472 (talk) 20:02, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Remaining examples

message: Not sure I am happy with the statement:
"Replaced in RAF service by the Rapier missile."
The capabilities of Bloodhound and Rapier were so different - Bloodhound, med/high altitude, medium range, Rapier, low/med altitude, short range.  Of course all that depends on your terminology.
If any entry is required perhaps:
"As at 2005 the only SAM in service with the RAF is [Rapier]."
Bob Moffatt
To correct the designation for Switzerland:
it's BL-64 means Boden-Luft 64 means the year of first deployment, in this case 1964
The Mk 1 has a range of 80 km, the Mk 2 185 km, and the Mk 3 "a longer range (around 75 mile)" - i.e. 120 km. This is shorter, not longer! So which is correct? BobThePirate 17:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Not happy

message: Any good reason why this article isn't at "Bristol Bloodhound"?GraemeLeggett 16:01, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: None as far as I can see it was never known as "Bloodhound SAM" so I would support a move MilborneOne 08:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've requested a name move as an uncontroversial proposal. GraemeLeggett 14:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  article name 

message: Does anyone know the purpose of the radio mast on the rear of the launcher? An identical unit can also be seen on the Thunderbird. This suggests it has something to do with the Type 83 radar unit and guidance system, which was common to both missile systems in their first versions.
I have read a description that suggest some sort of guidance signal was sent out of this mast. An RAF article seemed to suggest that it was a reference signal that doppler shifted the raw radar frequency so the missile knew what to look for, but if that is the case then it wouldn't have been used with the Type 83, which was a pulse unit.
More confusingly, when working on the Ferranti Argus article I came across references that suggested the Argus was used to calculate these signals and the pointing angles for a radar dish on the launcher. Clearly such a dish does not exist, and this antenna is obviously omnidirectional, so that's all rather confusing!
Any insights GRATEFULLY appreciated.
Maury 00:39, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Complete guess - maybe it was used to communicate aiming and "fire" information, as cables doing this could be destroyed by enemy bombing. 80.0.127.106 (talk) 00:32, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As a guess; The mast on the Bloodhound II launcher carries a CW aerial designed to receive ranging information from the Indigo Corkscrew doppler signal which, in conjunction with the Type 86 TIR, uses the missile start (launch) point as a reference, as the launchers may be located some way from the radars and fire control systems, hence missile range is always calculated from its actual launch point, so improving accuracy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.172.235 (talk) 10:46, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The mast on the launcher 

message: Comment moved to Bawdsey Manor 80.0.102.191 (talk) 22:47, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bloodhound site at Bawdsey, Suffolk 

message: Bit of a daft idea  to rename the article from the common name Bristol Bloodhound. MilborneOne (talk) 10:17, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name

message: I've never contributed to wikipedia before so if I'm breaching etiquette in some way be gentle!
According to wikipedia, Sebastian de Ferranti died in 1930, yet on the bloodhound page the subject
statement appears.  Both cannot be correct!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.177.161.213 (talk) 21:30, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sebastian de Ferranti agreed to pay back £4.25 million to the government" Incorrect? 

message: The article needs discussion and explanation of the warhead : how/when activated, how it actually shot down its target, how powerful an explosion etc. Rcbutcher (talk) 07:23, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Expanded slightly. --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:21, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Yes but what about the "bang you're dead" bit at the end of its mission ?

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message: There is a slight issue with the range, according to the text the range of the improved Mark 2 is 80 km, meanwhile the range of missile is given as 190 km in the infobox... I would alter it to the text value of 85 km also given in the source - 190 km seems to be the estimated value for the Blue Envoy.Wurelbum (talk) 18:16, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range