Woman's Royal Army Corps personnel with a demonstration model of a Thunderbird missile, no date
Photograph, Central Office of Information, 1950 (c)-1969 (c).
Two non-commissioned officers of the Women's Royal Army Corps with a Thunderbird surface to air missile.
English Electric, the company that made both the Canberra and Lightning jet aircraft, produced the Thunderbird. It was designed to provide ground forces and installations with a mobile air defence weapon that could eliminate enemy aircraft flying at an altitude above the effective range of anti-aircraft guns.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1992-10-144-1055
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1992-10-144-1055