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Bloodhound Missile Preservation Group

5/11/2018

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41 Squadron was once a Bloodhound Missile Unit. The hardware behind this part of our history is cherished and restored by Bloodhound Missile Preservation Group (BMPG).
​The BMPG was formed with the objective of restoring items of the Bloodhound MKII missile system that are in the group’s possession. Currently these are a Bloodhound Launch Control Post (LCP) and a Type 86 (T86) radar.

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Technical Supervisor's Display The Run-up Run-up Fault Display indicates 8 missiles fully prepared and selected for firing. All missiles are fault free.
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Engagement Controller's Display The display shows a tracked target with the target vector indicating the current target position, track and predicted position at interception. The adjacent data block lists current bearing, range, height, track and speed.

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Radar tracking a non-jamming target. The Doppler frequency is quite low, so it's probably a crossing target. The jamming centre display is centred and the jamming history line is flat, which indicates that there is no offset jammer present on this engagement.
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This photo was taken shortly after a successful interception. The ghostly wideband noise is a signature of the warhead burst. The target doppler spike is widening and decelerating, indicating that the target is breaking up.

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The radar has lost lock on a receding target using swept repeater jamming. The real target return looks to be at about -14kHz.
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Again, this is a receding target using swept repeater jamming. The real target return (skin echo) is at about -14kHz and the repeater is sweeping a narrow band centred on about -35kHz. It looks like the radar is tracking intermittently on the repeater. In normal circumstances, the E.C. would break lock on the repeater and re-acquire the skin echo.

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