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    Seaslug was a first-generation surface-to-air missile designed by Armstrong Whitworth (later part of the Hawker Siddeley group) for use by the Royal Navy...
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    missiles did not work at long range. They suggested Seaslug might be a good interim development. After considerable debate, in September 1948 Seaslug...
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    British guided missile destroyers, the first such warships built by the Royal Navy. Designed specifically around the Seaslug anti-aircraft missile system, the...
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    semi-active radar homing system with the same required range as Seaslug. Bristol's ramjet-powered Seaslug design was redirected to this new requirement instead...
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  • Retainer was used with the missile trials ship HMS Girdle Ness for trials of replenishment at sea with the new Seaslug missile. "Le paquebot Chungking,...
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    Sea Dart (redirect from Sea dart missile)
    ramjet-powered Bloodhound missile for the RAF, won the ensuing competition with another ramjet design. Compared to Seaslug, Sea Dart was faster, had much...
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    Flight International, 25 September 1959, pp. 295–299, 302–303. "Seaslug: The Most Missile in the Least Space" Archived 2013-11-01 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • HMS Girdle Ness (category Missile range instrumentation ships)
    for use in support of missile trials in the development of the Seaslug missile in the early 1960s. After trials of the missile were completed, Girdle...
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    commissioned and became the first operational Royal Navy ship to fire the Seaslug missile. Following work up, she sailed for the Mediterranean, followed by a...
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    essential manual nature of the 4.5" turret and the ageing Seacat and Seaslug missiles. In the spring and early summer of 1982 Glamorgan was involved in the...
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