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• Type A weighed 272 kg (600 lb), with a yield of 200 kT. This was a fission bomb.

• Type B weighed 431 kg (950 lb), with a yield of 400 kT. This was a thermonuclear bomb, based on the warhead intended for the British version of the cancelled Skybolt air-launched cruise missile.

• Type C weighed 272 kg (600 lb), with a yield of 10 kT. This was the depth charge version for the Royal Navy, possibly based on the B57 weapon used by the United States Navy.

Type A and B weapons were carried by strike aircraft, including the Avro Vulcan, Blackburn Buccaneer, SEPECAT Jaguar, Panavia TornadoThe Panavia Tornado is a jet engine fighter-bomber jointly developed as the Multi-role combat aircraft or MRCA by Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. It first flew on August 14th, 1974. International co-operation continued after its entry into service, and HarrierThe word Harrier when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language. The term "Harrier", when used by itself can refer to: The Harrier vertical take-off and landing fighter aircraft and derivatives; Hawker Siddeley Harrier 1st generati. At one time, eight Tornado squadrons were nuclear capable.

Following the 1997 General ElectionResults The election was fought under new boundaries, with an additional 8 seats across the UK. Changes listed here are from the notional 1992 result had it been fought on those boundaries. These notional results were used by all media organisations at th the Defence Secretary, George RobertsonGeorge Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen GCMG, PC (born 12 April 1946) was the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, between October 1999 and early January 2004; he succeeded Javier Solana for that position. Born in Port Elle, ordered the Strategic Defence ReviewThe Strategic Defence Review (or SDR) was a policy document produced by the Labour Government that came to power in 1997. Then Secretary of State for Defence, George Robertson, set out the initial defence policy of the new government, with a series of key to reassess all of the UK's miltary commitments and equipment. Only TridentThe Trident missile is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from submarines ( SSBNs), making it an SLBM. These are 14 active US Ohio class submarines and 4 UK Vanguard class submarines. There ar and the Eurofighter were exempt from the drawdown. One of the recommendations of this report was the withdrawal of all remaining WE177s, which was announced in March 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting. All of the weapons had been dismantled by the end of August that year, as Britain divested itself of all nuclear weapons other than the warheads of the Trident missiles of the Royal Navy's Vanguard-class submarines.

The withdrawal of the WE177 brought to an end four decades of RAF nuclear capability.