Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Rifles. Lee–Enfield [1] – Main service rifle until the 1950s and afterwards adapted for a variety of specialist roles. EM-2 rifle [2] – Experimental rifle adopted very briefly in 1951. L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle [3] – Main Cold War service rifle from 1954 to 1994. SA80 L85 rifle [4] – Adopted right at the end of the Cold War in 1987.
In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The UK initiated a nuclear weapons programme, codenamed Tube Alloys, during the Second World War.
BL755. Blue Danube (nuclear weapon) Blue Stone (neutron initiator) Browning Hi-Power.
Centurion tank main British tank early Cold War. Chieftain tank main British tank in the middle of the Cold War. Challenger 1 tank main British tank late in Cold War. Challenger 2 tank main British tank of early 21st century and current main British tank as of 2022. Set to be replaced by Challenger 3 roughly around 2030.
Blue Peacock. Blue Peacock, renamed from Blue Bunny and originally Brown Bunny, was a British tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s. The project's goal was to store a number of ten- kiloton nuclear land mines in Germany. These mines were intended to be placed on the North German Plain and detonated by wire or an eight-day timer [1] in ...
British nuclear weapons are designed and developed by the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment. The United Kingdom has four Vanguard-class submarines armed with nuclear armed Trident missiles. The principle of operation is based on maintaining deterrent effect by always having at least one submarine at sea, and was designed during the Cold War ...
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces. Since the end of the Cold War, the British Army has been deployed to a number of conflict zones, often as part of an expeditionary force, a coalition force or part of a United Nations peacekeeping operation. [1]
BID/60. Black Arrow. Black Knight (rocket) Blue Boar (bomb) Blue Joker. Blue Peacock. Bomb Power Indicator.