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Old 08-18-2019, 11:04 AM
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Well, I've had an enjoyable read right through Jan's 'Missile Garden' ... Some nice models of the Thor, but of course not with RAF markings, and even Jan resorted to plastic for the launcher. I didn't know there were so many variants of the rocket either, but then again I only ever saw one, and that was a couple of miles away.

Little mention of the Corporal, but it seems that wasn't much more than a V2 with bits added on. Plenty of modifiable V2s around I guess.

Rapier and Bloodhound were anti-aircraft missiles, not ICBMs so I guess outside of Jan's zone of interest, but this ground-based grunt saw a lot of them on RAF bases as well as on the missile range.
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