Americans buy Bloodhound missiles
 

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...tor_missiles-0

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:

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.../redduster.jpg

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

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

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

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.