Blue Boar (bomb)

Blue Boar
Type	Guided glider bomb
Place of origin	UK
Production history
Manufacturer	Vickers
Specifications
Weight	1,000 lb (450 kg)-10,000 lb (4,500 kg) ^[1]

The Vickers Blue Boar was a family of British air-launched television-guided glider bombs of the 1950s which was cancelled during development.^[2] It was to have replaced unguided bombs between 1,000 lb and 10,000 lb, or be equipped with a nuclear warhead.^[1]

Ordered under OR.1059 ^[3] it was cancelled in June 1954 after £3.1 million had been spent on its development^[3] because it was too heavy.^[3] However the casing design was modified and used in the Green Cheese air to surface missile.^[3]

References

1 2 Roy Dommett. "The Blue Streak Weapon" (PDF). British Rocketry Oral History Programme. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
↑ "Blue Boar Air-to-Surface missile". Skomer. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
1 2 3 4 "Project Cancelled". Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2012-09-15.

Forbat, John (2006). "3: Blue Boar Guided Gliding Bomb". Vickers Guided Weapons. Tempus Publishing. pp. 45–64. ISBN 0-7524-3769-0.

Guided missiles of the United Kingdom

Air-to-air	ASRAAM Fireflash Firestreak Red Dean Red Top SRAAM/Taildog Skyflash

Air-to-surface	ALARM Brimstone Lightweight Multirole Missile Martel¹ Sea Eagle Sea Skua Storm Shadow¹ Sea Venom¹

Surface-to-air	Bloodhound Blowpipe CAMM Javelin Rapier Sea Cat Sea Dart Sea Slug Sea Viper Sea Wolf Starburst Starstreak Tigercat Thunderbird

Surface-to-surface	Swingfire Malkara² UB.109T Vigilant

Nuclear	Blue Steel Blue Streak Blue Water Green Cheese

¹ Anglo-French ² Anglo-Australian

Cold War military projects of the United Kingdom

Air-to-air missiles	Blue Sky (Fireflash) Blue Jay (Firestreak) Red Dean Red Top SRAAM Skyflash

Air-to-surface missiles	Blue Steel Green Cheese

Surface-to-air missiles	CF.299 (Sea Dart) Green Light (Sea Cat) Red Duster (Bloodhound) Red Shoes (Thunderbird) Sea Slug

Surface-to-surface missiles	Blue Slug Blue Streak Blue Water Blue Rapier / Red Rapier Orange William (Swingfire)

Satellite launch vehicles	Black Arrow Black Knight

Nuclear warheads	Blue Danube Blue Peacock Orange Herald Red Beard Red Snow Violet Club Yellow Sun

List of codenames used for projects (Rainbow Codes)

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