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    Chevaline (/ˈʃɛvəliːn/) was a system to improve the penetrability of the warheads used by the British Polaris nuclear weapons system. Devised as an answer...
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  • Chevaline may refer to: The Chevaline project, a former secret project to upgrade the British Polaris missile system Chevaline, a commune of the Haute-Savoie...
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    French citizen on the Route Forestière Domaniale de la Combe d'Ire near Chevaline, Haute-Savoie, France, near the southern end of Lake Annecy. Four people...
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    Panton, Dr F. The Unveiling of Chevaline. Prospero/Journal of BROHP. 2004. Panton, Dr F. Polaris Improvements and the Chevaline System. Prospero/Journal of...
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    Falstaff was a British sounding rocket used during the 1970s as part of the Chevaline programme to improve the penetrability of the Polaris nuclear missile...
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    the Royal Navy who also retained MRV with the Chevaline upgrade, though the number of warheads in Chevaline was reduced to two due to the ABM counter-measures...
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    Chevaline (French pronunciation: [ʃəvalin]; Arpitan: Shvalnà) is a commune in the southeastern French department of Haute-Savoie. Communes of the Haute-Savoie...
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    The cave of Choranche, also called cave of Coufin-Chevaline, is located in the department of Isère, near Choranche in the Vercors Regional Natural Park...
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    Although the Navy's favoured option, the British government instead adopted Chevaline, a two warhead MRV system with decoys, on the existing Polaris airframes...
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    early 1970s. In the latter role he gave the final commitment to Project Chevaline, the Polaris missile improvement programme. He went on to be Chairman...
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