WE.177, the Glossary
The WE.177, originally styled as WE 177, and sometimes simply as WE177, was a series of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons with which the Royal Navy (RN) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) were equipped.[1]
Table of Contents
142 relations: AGM-69 SRAM, Air burst, Air Enthusiast, Air Ministry, Air-sol moyenne portée, Aircraft carrier, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Aldermaston, Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Anti-aircraft warfare, Anti-submarine weapon, AQM-127 SLAT, ARA General Belgrano, Atomic Weapons Establishment, Avro Vulcan, Avro Vulcan XL426, BAC TSR-2, Ballast, Ballistics, Blackburn Buccaneer, Bomb, Boosted fission weapon, British Aerospace Sea Harrier, British Armed Forces, Burghfield, CBRN defense, Center for Defense Information, Chapelcross nuclear power station, Chevaline, Cold War, Commander-in-chief, De Havilland Sea Vixen, Depth charge, Dumfries and Galloway, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eden Camp Museum, England, English Electric Canberra, English Heritage, Enriched uranium, Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower, Falkland Islands, Falklands War, Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, Fissile material, Fixed-wing aircraft, Fizzle (nuclear explosion), Fleet Air Arm, Fleet Air Arm Museum, Free fall, ... Expand index (92 more) »
- Cold War weapons of the United Kingdom
- Depth charges
- Nuclear bombs of the United Kingdom
- Tactical nuclear weapons
AGM-69 SRAM
The Boeing AGM-69 SRAM (Short-Range Attack Missile) was a nuclear air-to-surface missile.
Air burst
An air burst or airburst is the detonation of an explosive device such as an anti-personnel artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of on contact with the ground or target.
Air Enthusiast
Air Enthusiast was a British, bi-monthly, aviation magazine, published by the Key Publishing group.
Air Ministry
The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964.
Air-sol moyenne portée
The air-sol moyenne portée (ASMP; "medium-range air to surface missile") is a French nuclear air-launched cruise missile manufactured by MBDA France. In French nuclear doctrine, it is referred to as a "pre-strategic" weapon, the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons launched from the ''Triomphant''-class ballistic missile submarines.
See WE.177 and Air-sol moyenne portée
Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
See WE.177 and Aircraft carrier
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, Burque, and the Duke City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
See WE.177 and Albuquerque, New Mexico
Aldermaston
Aldermaston is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.
Annan, Dumfries and Galloway
Annan (Inbhir Anainn) is a town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland.
See WE.177 and Annan, Dumfries and Galloway
Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).
See WE.177 and Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-submarine weapon
An anti-submarine weapon (ASW) is any one of a number of devices that are intended to act against a submarine and its crew, to destroy (sink) the vessel or reduce its capability as a weapon of war.
See WE.177 and Anti-submarine weapon
AQM-127 SLAT
The AQM-127 Supersonic Low-Altitude Target (SLAT) was a target drone developed during the 1980s by Martin Marietta for use by the United States Navy.
ARA General Belgrano
ARA General Belgrano (C-4) was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982.
See WE.177 and ARA General Belgrano
Atomic Weapons Establishment
The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence research facility responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the UK's nuclear weapons. It is the successor to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) with its main site on the former RAF Aldermaston and has major facilities at Burghfield, Blacknest and RNAD Coulport.
See WE.177 and Atomic Weapons Establishment
Avro Vulcan
The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984.
Avro Vulcan XL426
Avro Vulcan XL426 is one of three remaining taxiable Avro Vulcan strategic bombers, the other two being XH558 and XM655.
See WE.177 and Avro Vulcan XL426
BAC TSR-2
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 is a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Ballast
Ballast is dense material used as a weight to provide stability to a vehicle or structure.
Ballistics
Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.
Blackburn Buccaneer
The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN).
See WE.177 and Blackburn Buccaneer
Bomb
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
See WE.177 and Bomb
Boosted fission weapon
A boosted fission weapon usually refers to a type of nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of fusion fuel to increase the rate, and thus yield, of a fission reaction.
See WE.177 and Boosted fission weapon
British Aerospace Sea Harrier
The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval short take-off and vertical landing/vertical take-off and landing jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft.
See WE.177 and British Aerospace Sea Harrier
British Armed Forces
The British Armed Forces are the military forces responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, its Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies.
See WE.177 and British Armed Forces
Burghfield
Burghfield is a village and large civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with a boundary with Reading.
CBRN defense
Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense (CBRN defense) or Nuclear, biological, and chemical protection (NBC protection) is a class of protective measures taken in situations where chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (including terrorism) hazards may be present.
Center for Defense Information
The Center for Defense Information (CDI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Washington, D.C. It specialized in analyzing and advising on military matters.
See WE.177 and Center for Defense Information
Chapelcross nuclear power station
Chapelcross nuclear power station is a former Magnox nuclear power station undergoing decommissioning.
See WE.177 and Chapelcross nuclear power station
Chevaline
Chevaline was a system to improve the penetrability of the warheads used by the British Polaris nuclear weapons system.
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Commander-in-chief
A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.
See WE.177 and Commander-in-chief
De Havilland Sea Vixen
The de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen is a British twin-engine, twin boom-tailed, two-seat, carrier-based fleet air-defence fighter flown by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm from the 1950s to the early 1970s.
See WE.177 and De Havilland Sea Vixen
Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock. WE.177 and depth charge are depth charges.
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway (Dumfries an Gallowa; Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands.
See WE.177 and Dumfries and Galloway
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
See WE.177 and Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eden Camp Museum
Eden Camp Modern History Museum is a large Second World War-related museum near Malton in North Yorkshire in England.
See WE.177 and Eden Camp Museum
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
English Electric Canberra
The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation, jet-powered medium bomber.
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English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.
See WE.177 and English Heritage
Enriched uranium
Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation.
See WE.177 and Enriched uranium
Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower
The Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower is situated in the former Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Priddy's Hard, in Gosport, Hampshire, England.
See WE.177 and Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.
See WE.177 and Falkland Islands
Falklands War
The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
The Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST) museum holds a collection of aircraft (actual and model), satellites, simulators, wind tunnel and Royal Aircraft Establishment-related material.
See WE.177 and Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
Fissile material
In nuclear engineering, fissile material is material that can undergo nuclear fission when struck by a neutron of low energy.
See WE.177 and Fissile material
Fixed-wing aircraft
A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift.
See WE.177 and Fixed-wing aircraft
Fizzle (nuclear explosion)
A fizzle occurs when the detonation of a device for creating a nuclear explosion (such as a nuclear weapon) grossly fails to meet its expected yield.
See WE.177 and Fizzle (nuclear explosion)
Fleet Air Arm
The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the naval aviation component of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN).
Fleet Air Arm Museum
The Fleet Air Arm Museum is devoted to the history of British naval aviation.
See WE.177 and Fleet Air Arm Museum
Free fall
In classical mechanics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it.
Frigate
A frigate is a type of warship.
GAM-87 Skybolt
The Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt (AGM-48 under the 1962 Tri-service system) was a hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) developed by the United States during the late 1950s.
Gravity
In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.
Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
The Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker is a former government-owned nuclear bunker located at Hack Green, Cheshire, England.
See WE.177 and Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
Handley Page Victor
The Handley Page Victor is a British jet-powered strategic bomber developed and produced by Handley Page during the Cold War.
See WE.177 and Handley Page Victor
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
See WE.177 and Harold Macmillan
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod is a retired maritime patrol aircraft developed and operated by the United Kingdom.
See WE.177 and Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
Hawker Siddeley P.1154
The Hawker Siddeley P.1154 was a planned supersonic vertical/short take-off and landing (V/STOL) fighter aircraft designed by Hawker Siddeley Aviation (HSA).
See WE.177 and Hawker Siddeley P.1154
Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.
Ikara (missile)
The Ikara missile was an Australian ship-launched anti-submarine missile, named after an Australian Aboriginal word for "throwing stick". WE.177 and Ikara (missile) are military equipment introduced in the 1960s.
See WE.177 and Ikara (missile)
Imperial War Museum Duxford
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England.
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Imperial War Museum North
Imperial War Museum North (sometimes referred to as IWM North) is a museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.
See WE.177 and Imperial War Museum North
Kew
Kew is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
See WE.177 and Kew
Laydown delivery
Laydown delivery is a mode of delivery found in some nuclear gravity bombs: the bomb's descent to the target is slowed by parachute so that it lands on the ground without detonating.
See WE.177 and Laydown delivery
List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
Squadrons are the main form of flying unit of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
See WE.177 and List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
London Southend Airport
London Southend Airport is a minor international airport situated on the outskirts of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England, approximately from the centre of London.
See WE.177 and London Southend Airport
Mach number
The Mach number (M or Ma), often only Mach, is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.
Mark 44 torpedo
The Mark 44 torpedo is a now-obsolete air-launched and ship-launched lightweight torpedo manufactured in the United States, and under licence in Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, with 10,500 being produced for U.S. service.
See WE.177 and Mark 44 torpedo
Midland Air Museum
The Midland Air Museum (MAM) is situated just outside the village of Baginton in Warwickshire, England, and is adjacent to Coventry Airport.
See WE.177 and Midland Air Museum
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD or MoD) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
See WE.177 and Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
Nassau Agreement
The Nassau Agreement, concluded on 21 December 1962, was an agreement negotiated between President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to end the Skybolt Crisis.
See WE.177 and Nassau Agreement
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History (formerly named National Atomic Museum) is a national repository of nuclear science information chartered by the 102nd United States Congress under Public Law 102-190, and located in unincorporated Bernalillo County, New Mexico, with an Albuquerque postal address.
See WE.177 and National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
See WE.177 and NATO
Nevada Test Site
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about northwest of the city of Las Vegas.
See WE.177 and Nevada Test Site
New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
North East Land, Sea and Air Museums
The North East Land, Sea and Air Museums (NELSAM), formerly the North East Aircraft Museum, is a volunteer-run aviation museum situated on the site of the former RAF Usworth/Sunderland Airport, between Washington and Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England.
See WE.177 and North East Land, Sea and Air Museums
Nuclear depth bomb
A nuclear depth bomb is the nuclear equivalent of a conventional depth charge, and can be used in anti-submarine warfare for attacking submerged submarines. WE.177 and nuclear depth bomb are depth charges.
See WE.177 and Nuclear depth bomb
Nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes), combine to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
Nuclear weapon design
Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate.
See WE.177 and Nuclear weapon design
Nuclear weapon yield
The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated, usually expressed as a TNT equivalent (the standardized equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene which, if detonated, would produce the same energy discharge), either in kilotonnes (kt—thousands of tonnes of TNT), in megatonnes (Mt—millions of tonnes of TNT), or sometimes in terajoules (TJ).
See WE.177 and Nuclear weapon yield
Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom
In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
See WE.177 and Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom
Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
See WE.177 and Ocean
Old Sarum Airfield
Old Sarum Airfield is a grass strip airfield north-north-east of Salisbury, in Laverstock parish, Wiltshire, England.
See WE.177 and Old Sarum Airfield
Operational Requirement
An Operational Requirement, commonly abbreviated OR, was a United Kingdom (UK) Air Ministry document setting out the required characteristics for a future (i.e., as-yet unbuilt) military aircraft or weapon system.
See WE.177 and Operational Requirement
Orford Ness
Orford Ness is a cuspate foreland shingle spit on the Suffolk coast in Great Britain, linked to the mainland at Aldeburgh and stretching along the coast to Orford and down to North Weir Point, opposite Shingle Street.
Panavia Tornado
The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multi-role combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany.
See WE.177 and Panavia Tornado
Parachute
A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag or, in a ram-air parachute, aerodynamic lift.
Plutonium
Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94.
Polymer-bonded explosive
Polymer-bonded explosives, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosives, are explosive materials in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix using small quantities (typically 5–10% by weight) of a synthetic polymer.
See WE.177 and Polymer-bonded explosive
Port and starboard
Port and starboard are nautical terms for watercraft, aircraft and spacecraft, referring respectively to the left and right sides of the vessel, when aboard and facing the bow (front).
See WE.177 and Port and starboard
Public Record Office
The Public Record Office (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as the PRO), Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form The National Archives, based in Kew.
See WE.177 and Public Record Office
RAF Cottesmore
Royal Air Force Cottesmore or more simply RAF Cottesmore is a former Royal Air Force station in Rutland, England, situated between Cottesmore and Market Overton.
RAF Honington
Royal Air Force Honington or more simply RAF Honington is a Royal Air Force station located south of Thetford near Ixworth in Suffolk, England.
RAF Marham
Royal Air Force Marham, commonly abbreviated RAF Marham is a Royal Air Force station and military airbase near the village of Marham in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia.
RAF Regiment
The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment) is part of the Royal Air Force and functions as a specialist corps.
Red Beard (nuclear weapon)
Red Beard was the first British tactical nuclear weapon. WE.177 and Red Beard (nuclear weapon) are cold War weapons of the United Kingdom, military equipment introduced in the 1960s, nuclear bombs of the United Kingdom and tactical nuclear weapons.
See WE.177 and Red Beard (nuclear weapon)
RFA Fort Austin
RFA Fort Austin is a retired British ''Fort Rosalie''-class dry stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
See WE.177 and RFA Fort Austin
RFA Fort Rosalie (A385)
RFA Fort Rosalie was the lead ship of her class of Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ships.
See WE.177 and RFA Fort Rosalie (A385)
RFA Regent
RFA Regent (A486) was an ammunition, explosives and stores supply ship in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA).
RFA Resource
RFA Resource was an armament stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom.
RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron)
Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, commonly referred to as RNAS Yeovilton, (HMS Heron) is an airbase of the Royal Navy, sited a few miles north of Yeovil, in the English county of Somerset.
See WE.177 and RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron)
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
See WE.177 and Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force Germany
Royal Air Force Germany, commonly known as RAF Germany, and abbreviated RAFG, is a former command of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and part of British Forces Germany (BFG).
See WE.177 and Royal Air Force Germany
Royal Air Force Museum Midlands
The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, located in Cosford in Shropshire, is a free museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular.
See WE.177 and Royal Air Force Museum Midlands
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a naval auxiliary fleet owned by the UK's Ministry of Defence.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne.
Science Museum, London
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
See WE.177 and Science Museum, London
SEPECAT Jaguar
The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French supersonic jet attack aircraft originally used by the British Royal Air Force and the French Air Force in the close air support and nuclear strike role.
Somerset
Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Strategic bomber
A strategic bomber is a medium- to long-range penetration bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy's capacity to wage war.
See WE.177 and Strategic bomber
Strategic nuclear weapon
A strategic nuclear weapon (SNW) refers to a nuclear weapon that is designed to be used on targets often in settled territory far from the battlefield as part of a strategic plan, such as military bases, military command centers, arms industries, transportation, economic, and energy infrastructure, and countervalue targets such areas such as cities and towns.
See WE.177 and Strategic nuclear weapon
Sunderland
Sunderland is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England.
Supreme Allied Commander Europe
The Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) is the commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO) and head of ACO's headquarters, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).
See WE.177 and Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Swindon
Swindon is a town in Wiltshire, England.
Tactical nuclear weapon
A tactical nuclear weapon (TNW) or non-strategic nuclear weapon (NSNW) is a nuclear weapon that is designed to be used on a battlefield in military situations, mostly with friendly forces in proximity and perhaps even on contested friendly territory. WE.177 and tactical nuclear weapon are tactical nuclear weapons.
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The National Archives (United Kingdom)
The National Archives (TNA; Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
See WE.177 and The National Archives (United Kingdom)
Thermonuclear weapon
A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design.
See WE.177 and Thermonuclear weapon
Tigerfish (torpedo)
The Mark 24 Tigerfish was a heavyweight acoustic homing torpedo used by the Royal Navy (RN) during the 1980s and 90s. WE.177 and Tigerfish (torpedo) are cold War weapons of the United Kingdom.
See WE.177 and Tigerfish (torpedo)
TNT equivalent
TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.
Toss bombing
Toss bombing (sometimes known as loft bombing, and by the U.S. Air Force as the Low Altitude Bombing System, or LABS) is a method of bombing where the attacking aircraft pulls upward when releasing its bomb load, giving the bomb additional time of flight by starting its ballistic path with an upward vector.
Treaty of Tlatelolco
The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (commonly known as The Tlatelolco Treaty) is an international treaty that establishes the denuclearization of Latin America and the Caribbean.
See WE.177 and Treaty of Tlatelolco
Tritium
Tritium or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with half-life ~12.3 years.
UGM-27 Polaris
The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). WE.177 and UGM-27 Polaris are military equipment introduced in the 1960s.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton (abbreviated as Soton in post-nominal letters) is a public research university in Southampton, England.
See WE.177 and University of Southampton
US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
The US–UK Mutual Defense Agreement, or the 1958 UK–US Mutual Defence Agreement, is a bilateral treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons co-operation.
See WE.177 and US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
V bomber
The "V bombers" were the Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear strike force known officially as the V force or Bomber Command Main Force.
Variable yield
Variable yield, or dial-a-yield, is an option available on most modern nuclear weapons.
Vickers Valiant
The Vickers Valiant was a British high-altitude jet bomber designed to carry nuclear weapons, and in the 1950s and 1960s was part of the Royal Air Force's "V bomber" strategic deterrent force.
See WE.177 and Vickers Valiant
W58
The W58 was an American thermonuclear warhead used on the Polaris A-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile. WE.177 and W58 are military equipment introduced in the 1960s.
See WE.177 and W58
W59
The W59 was an American thermonuclear warhead used on some Minuteman I ICBM missiles from 1962 to 1969, and planned to be used on the cancelled GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile. WE.177 and W59 are military equipment introduced in the 1960s.
See WE.177 and W59
Warhead
A warhead is the section of a device that contains the explosive agent or toxic (biological, chemical, or nuclear) material that is delivered by a missile, rocket, torpedo, or bomb.
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
See WE.177 and Washington, D.C.
Westland Lynx
The Westland Lynx is a British multi-purpose twin-engined military helicopter designed and built by Westland Helicopters at its factory in Yeovil.
Westland Wasp
The Westland Wasp is a small 1960s British turbine-powered, shipboard anti-submarine helicopter.
Westland Wessex
The Westland Wessex is a British-built turbine-powered development of the Sikorsky H-34 (in US service known as Choctaw).
See WE.177 and Westland Wessex
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yellow Sun (nuclear weapon)
Yellow Sun was the first British operational high-yield strategic nuclear weapon warhead. WE.177 and Yellow Sun (nuclear weapon) are nuclear bombs of the United Kingdom.
See WE.177 and Yellow Sun (nuclear weapon)
Yorkshire Air Museum
The Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial is an aviation museum in Elvington, York on the site of the former RAF Elvington airfield, a Second World War RAF Bomber Command station.
See WE.177 and Yorkshire Air Museum
See also
Cold War weapons of the United Kingdom
- 120 mm BAT recoilless rifle
- 2-inch RP
- BL755
- Blue Danube (nuclear weapon)
- Blue Stone (neutron initiator)
- Browning Hi-Power
- ET.317
- JP233
- L10 Ranger anti-personnel mine
- L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle
- L9 bar mine
- LAW 80
- Mk 7 mine
- PIAT
- Red Beard (nuclear weapon)
- Red Snow
- Royal Ordnance L9
- SA80
- Spearfish torpedo
- Sterling submachine gun
- TIALD
- Tigerfish (torpedo)
- Violet Club
- WE.177
Depth charges
- B57 nuclear bomb
- B90 nuclear bomb
- Depth charge
- Mark 90 nuclear bomb
- Mark VII depth charge
- Mk 101 Lulu
- Mk 105 Hotpoint
- Nuclear depth bomb
- WE.177
Nuclear bombs of the United Kingdom
- Blue Danube (nuclear weapon)
- Orange Herald
- Red Beard (nuclear weapon)
- Red Snow
- Violet Club
- WE.177
- Yellow Sun (nuclear weapon)
Tactical nuclear weapons
- B57 nuclear bomb
- B61 nuclear bomb
- Medium Atomic Demolition Munition
- Nuclear artillery
- Red Beard (nuclear weapon)
- Special Atomic Demolition Munition
- Suitcase nuclear device
- Tactical nuclear weapon
- W25 (nuclear warhead)
- WE.177
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WE.177
Also known as WE 177, WE.117, WE.177 (nuclear weapon), WE.177A, WE.177B, WE.177C, WE177.
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