AN INTRODUCTION TO GUIDED WEAPONS [Main Title]

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  • Title: AN INTRODUCTION TO GUIDED WEAPONS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: AMY 321
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  • Summary: An introduction to guided weapons including Fireflash.
  • Description: Reel 1: Differing types of guided missiles - Air to Air, Air to Surface, Surface to Air and Surface to Surface missiles. Missile Design – explanation of travelling sub sonically and supersonically. Various parameters governing design of missiles – internal equipement, radar dish size etc. Wing design, gyroscopes described. Reel 2: Aligning potentiometers/aerials. Hydraulic power pack explained. Boost rocket motors and sustainer motors. Types of motors explained, e.g. Ramjet. Reel 3: Guidance system explained. Beam riding missiles such as Fireflash explained. Command Link system. Infra-Red missile homing explained. Passive and active homing missiles described. Various methods of guidance systems examined. Reel 4: Storage of guided missiles. Trials. Aberporth range and Hebrides range. Operational Use described. Surface to Surface and ICBM touched on.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1957-10
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Air Ministry (Production sponsor) Marcus Cooper Ltd (Production company) Coop, Eric (Production individual) Myers, Tommy (Production individual) Stimson, Dorothy (Production individual) Davies, Gordon (Production individual) Cooper, Marcus ()
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 4
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  • Notes: Remarks: originally classified as "Restricted".
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