The Vickers Valiant was a British high-altitude jet bomber designed to carry nuclear weapons, and in the 1950s and 1960s was part of the Royal Air Force's...
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demonstrated in the turret of the Vickers Mk. 7 were later incorporated into the Challenger 2. Following trials of the Vickers Valiant in the Middle East in 1983...
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The Vickers Main Battle Tank Mk. 4 later known as the Vickers Valiant was a main battle tank developed as a private venture by British company Vickers for...
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V bomber (section Withdrawal of the Valiants)
models of strategic bomber, known collectively as the V class, were the Vickers Valiant, which first flew in 1951 and entered service in 1955; the Avro Vulcan...
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Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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However Vickers decided to build a single prototype as a private venture for evaluation against the specification. The Vickers 131 Valiant was a single-bay...
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Look up valiant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Valiant may refer to: James Valiant (1884–1917), English cricketer The Valiant Brothers, a professional...
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first, Valiant (the nameship) commissioned in 1966 three years after Dreadnought, and Warspite the following year. Both were built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness...
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of the Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire. The first application was the Vickers Valiant. The engine entered production in 1950 as the RA.3/Mk.101 with 6,500 lbf...
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Vickers Valiant, one of the V-bombers, but also featured substantial changes. In addition to its military application, both the Ministry and Vickers also...
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