Talk:Malkara missile

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There is something odd about the details in the Malkara missile article. During 1958/9, whilst working for Pye Ltd. at Cambridge, I was part of a team designing an anti-tank, vehicle launched and wire guided missle, called Malkara and with an Australian provenance. But the system was not then in service (as the article suggests) and it was controlled by vectored thrust using a servo-driven, ceramic exhaust nozzle - rather than control surfaces. Was this a 'Malkara II' to replace an earlier design? If so I am not aware that any of us lowly designers were aware of this. In 1959, when I moved on to other work, the missile was undergoing static tests (at Cranfield) and was in preparation to be given live flight tests. If it ever came to production, it could not have seen service before 1961 or 1962 at the earliest − perhaps it just suffered an MOD change of course, as so many other defence projects? P J O'Neill 18:30, 2 March 2007 (UTC)P J O'Neill