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Den Bristol blodhund is a British ramjet powered surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s. It served as the UK’s main air defence weapon into the 1990s and was in large-scale service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the forces of four other countries. Part of sweeping changes to the UK’s defence posture, the Bloodhound was intended to protect the RAF’s V bomber bases to preserve the deterrent force, attacking bombers that made it past the Lightning interceptor force. Bloodhound Mk. I entered service in December 1958, the first British guided weapon to enter full operational service. This was part of Stage 1 upgrades to the defensive systems, in the later Stage 2, both Bloodhound and the fighters would be replaced by a longer-range missile code named Blue Envoy. When this was ultimately cancelled in 1957, parts of its design were worked into Bloodhound Mk. II, roughly doubling the range of the missile. The Mk. I began to be replaced by the Mk. II starting in 1964.

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Bristol Bloodhound var et britisk jord-til-luft missil udviklet i 1950'erne som et forsvar mod sovjetiske bombefly. Det blev designet af Bristol Aeroplane Company og brugte en ramjetmotor til at drive det til hastigheder på op til Mach 2.7. Missilet havde en rækkevidde på ca. 100 km og bar et 200 kg højeksplosivt sprænghoved. Blodhunden blev styret af radar og brugte fire små kontrolfinner bagtil og fire større vinger i midtersektionen til at styre. Missilet blev indsat af Royal Air Force og Royal Australian Air Force fra 1958 til 1991 og eksporteret også til Sverige, Schweiz og Singapore. Bloodhound blev betragtet som et pålideligt og effektivt våbensystem, men blev til sidst erstattet af mere avancerede missiler som Rapier og Sea Dart.