Missile Collection

Four Royal Australian Air Force F-111 aircraft
February 14, 2006 - Four Royal Australian Air Force F-111 aircraft head out to the ranges on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, during Red Flag 06-1

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missiles

Brimstone air-to-ground missile on a triple launcher

American M1 Abrams army tank with soldier in the hatch by machine gun

The Arrival of the First Thor Ballistic Missile to RAF Bom
Photograph of the delivery of first Thor Ballistic Missile to an RAF Base in Norfolk, 19th September 1958. Sixty-five feet long

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missiles at RAF Station, Woolfox Lodge

U. S. Air Force photograph of the launch site of intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at Guanajay, Cuba
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962. U.S. Air Force photograph of the launch site of intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at Guanajay, Cuba, 17 October 1962

Aircraft English Electric Lightning F3. RAF 111 Squadron pilots standing on the wing of an English Electric Lightning F3 at RAF Wattisham

German King Tiger tank

Tornado GR4s armed with Stormshadow missiles
Image of a Tornado GR4 from 903 Expeditionary Air Wing (EAW), based out of Royal Air Force Akrotiri, Cyprus. Seen here loaded with Storm Shadow cruise missiles

American Sherman Crab, army tank with chains spinning on a cylinder attached by steel arms

A Thor missile is loaded into a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II for transport to the UK

Korean War era North American F-86 Sabre combat aircraft in flight
F-86 JET FIGHTER PLANE. Korean War era North American F-86 Sabre combat aircraft in flight

The latest type of motor torpedo boat in use by the Royal Navy, discharging her weapons during exercises in the English Channel during the Second World War. July 1940

Northrop T-38A-10-NO Talon 58-1194, Buzz Number TF-194. The first production aircraft, with the rear cockpit canopy blanked off for flight testing

MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) Vehicles at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan
M270 MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) vehicles at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. The 227mm American designed Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)

An F-14A Tomcat with missile armament
An F-14A Tomcat banks away from the camera, showing a complement of three missiles: AIM-54 Phoenix, AIM-7 Sparrow, and AIM-9 Sidewinder. The F-14 also carried an internal 20mm cannon

Vickers(ja) Wild Goose missile on a rail trolley

The first Thor missile for the RAF at Feltwell Norfolk
The first Thor missile for the RAF at Feltwell, Norfolk, on 19 September 1958

Trident missile test launch C016 / 6616
Trident missile test launch from the submarine USS Mariano G. Vallejo. Trident missiles are submarine-launched ballistic missiles that are armed with nuclear warheads

USA, South Dakota, Philip, Minuteman II ICBM missile launch site, Delta-09

Chrysler Jupiter-C sounding rocket at Cape Canaveral on 8 August 1957 prior to the third and final sub-orbital test of a re-entry nose cone

The UK Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Harold Macmillan, insp?
The UK Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Harold Macmillan, inspects a de Havilland Firestreak air-to-air missile on Gloster Javelin F(AW)7, XH900, as the pilot, Flt Lt Ian Keppie, looks on at Cottesmore

A Royal Air Force Harrier GR9 flying low over North Wales. The Harrier GR9 is a single seat, multi-role combat aircraft that is capable of operating in extreme environments

Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers, 1943
Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers, being reloaded by Red Army soldiers in September 1943, during World War II. At this stage in the war

Blue Streak at Woomera

An F-16 Fighting Falcon prepares to refuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker
July 20, 2007 - An F-16 Fighting Falcon prepares to refuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker at Red Flag-Alaska

The Sea Based X-band Radar is an integral part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System and is temporarily located at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base Shipyard

Wg Cdr R D Romanis gives Queen Elizabeth II a tour
Wg Cdr R.D. Romanis shows Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh a de Havilland Firestreak infra-red, air-to-air guided missile on Gloster Javelin F(AW) 2, XA633. 1957. Date: 1957

A Thor IRBM is launched from Air Force Missile Test Centre
A Thor IRBM is launched from the Air Force Missile Test Center, Patrick AFB, Florida, USA

Trident missile test launch C016 / 6615
Trident missile test launch. Trident missiles are submarine-launched ballistic missiles that are armed with nuclear warheads. They have a range of 7, 350 kilometres

Rocket engines
Zoom effect view of rocket engines mounted on a ballistic missile on display at the Air and Space Museum, Le Bourget, Paris. An example of the art in engineering and technology

WW II - range of bombs, ordnance dropped by RAF
Vintage World War II photograph - range of bombs ordnance dropped by bombers of the RAF

Rocketship in Outer Space
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Sikorsky HUS-1 Seahorse with Bullpup air-to-surface missile
Sikorsky HUS-1 Seahorse, 145762, carrying a Bullpup air-to-surface guided missile

English Electric Thunderbird guided missile system
English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile system, March 1958. Date: 1958

Blue Streak test rig installation at Hatfield, c1958
Blue Streak test rig installation at Hatfield, circa 1958. Date: circa 1958

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Farnborough in 1957. Date: 1957

WW2 - German V2 Rocket captured - October 1945. Date: 1945

Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel October 27, 2018

USA, North Dakota, Cooperstown, Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site, ICBM missile launch center, site Oscar-Zero, underground console of the missile launch bunker

Douglas NA-3A Skywarrior 135609
United States Navy - Douglas NA-3A Skywarrior 135609 (MSN 10302), of the Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC) at Point Mugu in October 1971. Date: 1971

MAZ-547A/MAZ-7916 Transporter Erector Launcher - SS-20 IRBM
A MAZ-547A/MAZ-7916 Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) for the 'RSD-10 Pioneer' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), given the NATO reporting name 'SS-20 Saber'

Douglas RA-3B Skywarrior 138938
United States Navy - Douglas RA-3B Skywarrior 138938, of NMC at Point Mugu NAS in October 1975. Date: 1975

Sud-Aviaton SO.4050 Vautour IIN 348 - F-AZHP
Armee de l'Air - Sud-Aviaton SO.4050 Vautour IIN 348 / F-AZHP (msn 348), operated by CEV (Centre d'Essais en Vol) for radar and missile trials. (Armee de l'Air - French Air Force). Date: circa 2005

Armstrong Whitworth Sea Slug, surface-to-air missile at the SBAC Farnborough airshow on 6 September 1958. Date: 1958

A-4 ballistic missile (aka V-2) on gate guard duties at the US Army Anti-Aircraft & Guided Missile Centre, on Fort Bliss, TX. Date: circa 1955

Portrait of the Macedonian revolutionary hero, Pito Gouleff
3566999 Portrait of the Macedonian revolutionary hero, Pito Gouleff by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Macedonia 1904 Photographer: Unidentified Author); Alinari Archives, Florence

Engraving depicting thrushes: 1
5309385 Engraving depicting thrushes: 1; (add.info.: Engraving depicting thrushes: 1. Missile-Thrush. 2: Redwing Thrush. 3: Song Thrush. 4: Fieldfare Thrush. 5: Blackbird)

A Mangonel catapult
5308079 A Mangonel catapult.; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a Mangonel catapult, used to hurl missiles at an enemy from Roman times until the days of efficient guns. Dated 19th century)

A reconstructed Roman ballista
5307967 A reconstructed Roman ballista.; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a reconstructed Roman ballista, an engine used by ancient Romans to fire arrows. Dated 19th century)

Vintage IAF VIII
Tal Paz-Fridman

In the submerged torpedo flat of a battleship, illustration from The Western Front, pub
STC400493 In the submerged torpedo flat of a battleship, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho) by Bone

Avro Vulcan B. 2 XL318
Royal Air Force - Avro Vulcan B.2 XL318, of No.617 (Dambusters) Squadron, with an inert Blue Steel missile, at Andrews Air Force Base

R. A. F ground crew equipping Typhoons with rocket projectiles at a landing strip in France
R.A.F ground crew equipping Typhoons with rocket projectiles at a landing strip in France. Picture taken 2 weeks after the Normandy Landings. Picture taken 19th June 1944

Anti aircraft gun and army unit in the Hull and Yorkshire, or East Riding, area of England during World War Two. Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as " all measures

Radioplane OQ-19D aerial target. The OQ-19 was a low-speed target used for gun and missile anti-aircraft training. Radioplane, a division of the Northrop Corporation

Iowa Air National Guard - Northrop F-89J Scorpion O-32662
Iowa Air National Guard - Northrop F-89J Scorpion 53-(O-3)2662 (O for obsolete, not a number), of the 124th Fighter Interceptor Squadron

United States Air Force Martin MGM-13 Mace 60-6726, tactical surface to surface missile. The Mace was to be armed with a nuclear warhead and was deployed in West Germany, South Korea and on Okinawa

V-2 Rocket A-4
V-2 Rocket on a Low-Loader Truck in the Streets in London Date: 1945

de Havilland Blue Streak
De Havilland Blue Streak Medium-Range Ballistic Missile Being Lowered, in Its Launcher-Frame, Onto a Low-Loader Truck Date: 1950s

Fieseler Fi-103 V-1 Doodlebugs in a Row Date: 1945

The 32nd Guided Weapons Regiment of the Royal Artillery?
The 32nd Guided Weapons Regiment of the Royal Artillery at Ty Croes, North Wales, working on the English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile

An English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile being transferred from the launcher-loading trolley to the launcher, September 1958. Date: 1958

Blue Streak static firing of vehicle 4D4 on the C3 stand at Spadeadam

Blue Streak in LT Tower - Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory
Blue Streak in the LT Tower at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory at Hatfield

An almost complete Blue Streak at Stevenage, c1964
An almost complete Blue Streak at Stevenage, circa 1964. Date: circa 1964

Blue Streak assembly line at de Havilland?s factory at Stevenage, 16 August 1961. Date: 1961

Complete Blue Streak electrical mock-up for circuit testing at Stevenage, circa 1964. Date: circa 1964

Bristol Bloodhound guided missile unveiled at Filton
Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile was unveiled at Filton on 20 August 1957. Date: 1957

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile, North Coates
Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Britain?s first guided weapons air defence station at North Coates, Lincolnshire. November 1958. Date: 1958

A missile fired into Afrin as seen from north of Rajo, Syria February 25, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

A general view of the Israeli city of Ashkelon, as an Iron Dome anti-missile fires near the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, November 12, 2018. REUTERS/ Amir Cohen TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Rockets fired by Palestinian militants towards Israel are seen in Gaza, November 12, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A missile hangs on a parachute while falling over the rebel-held besieged al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Missile fire is seen over Daraa, Syria May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Alaa al-Faqir

Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Iron Dome anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile as rockets are launched
The Iron Dome anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel near the southern city of Sderot, Israel August 9, 2018

USA, New Mexico, White Sands Missile Range, Patriot Missiles

Cuba, Havana, La Habana Vieja, Museo de la Revolucion, Museum of the Revolution

U. S. Army soldiers firing a 120mm mortar during combat operations in Afghanistan
October 23, 2007 - U.S. Army soldiers fire a 120mm mortar during combat operations in the Da udzay Valley in the Zabul Province of Afghanistan

cloudmaker
Marek Gembka

Isobayashi Taii on Horseback at Castle Gate with Falling Stones, 1886. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Isobayashi Taii on Horseback at Castle Gate with Falling Stones, 1886. Series: Lives of Modern People

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"Unleashing Power: The Mighty Missile Arsenal" From the skies to the ground, missiles have revolutionized warfare throughout history. Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missiles stand tall as guardians of the sky, ensuring protection against aerial threats with their precision and speed. In a display of sheer force, four Royal Australian Air Force F-111 aircraft soar through the clouds, armed with deadly payloads ready to strike at any moment. These sleek machines represent a lethal combination of advanced technology and strategic prowess. On land, an American M1 Abrams army tank stands resolute, its soldier perched in the hatch by a menacing machine gun. A symbol of strength and dominance on the battlefield, this armored behemoth strikes fear into the hearts of enemies. Witnessing history unfold before our eyes is "The Arrival of the First Thor Ballistic Missile to RAF Bom. " This groundbreaking event marked a new era in military capabilities as these powerful weapons made their way onto British soil. Taking aim from above, Brimstone air-to-ground missiles rest on a triple launcher—a testament to their versatility and ability to neutralize targets with surgical precision. Their presence ensures that no enemy stronghold remains unscathed. Reflecting back in time, we glimpse at U. S. Air Force photograph capturing intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at Guanajay during Cuba's tense days in 1962. These formidable weapons serve as reminders of past conflicts that shaped global politics for generations to come. Continuing our journey through military might are German King Tiger tanks—formidable beasts known for their impenetrable armor and devastating firepower. They instilled terror among adversaries while showcasing Germany's engineering excellence during World War II. A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II carries within it immense power—an imposing Thor missile primed for deployment. As it takes flight towards unknown destinations, one can only imagine what lies ahead for those who dare challenge its destructive potential.