Starstreak missile
Green Cheese was a British-made radar-guided anti-ship tactical nuclear warhead missile project of the 1950s. Green Cheese arose as part of the Sverdlov crisis when the Royal Navy were concerned over the appearance of a new Soviet heavy cruiser class.
It was a longer-ranged and guided replacement for the unguided Red Angel which had required an approach by the.

. To negate this problem de Havilland created a stand-by feature. The missile was vulnerable to a pre-emptive nuclear strike launched without warning or in the absence of any heightening of tension sufficient to warrant readying the missile. A missile could be held at 30 seconds notice to launch for ten hours.
As the missiles were to be deployed in pairs and it took ten hours for one.
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