Americans buy Bloodhound missiles

[Frosch Kampfer]

Interesting headline in Pravda today: The US is to surround Russia with interceptor missiles - nice article with a picture of a Bloodhound. Be afraid Russia!http://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/kremlin/08-02-2008/103957-interceptor_missiles-0

[Doors Off]

Yep, they already have two deployed out the front of the Air Base in Darwin, OZ. I think that they are cleverly disguised as gate guards. (Think that they are still there).:ooh:

[Riskman]

Here's the picture from the pravda report. Can't imagine it was anything other than a display piece when photographed.

http://www.skomer.u-net.com/projects/images/redduster.jpg

[JAVELINBOY]

The Shorts Belfast in the background points to 1976 when they bwere retired from service, anyone know where the picture was taken, not aware any Belfasts were displayed anywhere

[TheWizard]

Looks like the RAF museum at Cosford to me
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/collections/aircraft/short-brothers-belfast-ci.cfm

[Jackonicko]

Cosford, before their Belslow was re-painted by TAC Heavylift. There's one of the British Airways collection jets, too.

[MAINJAFAD]

Bloodhound II Missile Serial No 1001. Now in the Cold War Hall at Cosford. It was used as a handing training round / deployable display missile at West Raynham during the 1980's and was a gutted shell. It is also the round that the Flightpath 1-32 scale kit was based on, hence all of the bits missing from it were also missing from the kit.