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Sea Cat
Seacat was a British short-range surface-to-air missile system intended to replace the ubiquitous Bofors 40 mm gun aboard warships of all sizes. It was the world's first operational shipboard point-defence missile system and was designed so that the Bofors guns could be replaced with minimum modification to the recipient vessel and (originally) using existing fire-control systems. A mobile land-based version of the system was known as Tigercat.
==History==
Seacat was designed by Short Brothers of Belfast for use against fast jet aircraft that were proving to be too difficult for the WWII-era Bofors guns to successfully intercept. The missile was based on the Shorts ''Green Light'' prototype, itself a development of the SX-A5, a research missile based on the Australian Malkara anti-tank missile to test radio manual guidance of a short-range surface-to-air missile. It replaced the ''Orange Nell'' development programme for a lighter weapon than the enormous Sea Slug missile. The first public reference to the name ''Seacat'' was April 1958, when Shorts was awarded a contract to develop a close-in short-range air-to-air missile. The missile was shown for the first time to the general public at the 1959 Farnborough Air Show. The first acceptance trials of the Seacat on a warship was in 1961 aboard . The Seacat became the first operational guided missile to be fired by a warship of the Royal Navy. Later it was adopted by the Swedish Navy, making it the first British guided missile to be fired by a foreign navy.〔("SEACAT - The Guided Missile To Defend Small Ships" ) ''FLIGHT International'', 5 September 1963, p. 438.〕
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