Talk:Tychon (missile)

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 19:21, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that the British Tychon missile was developed from a Barnes Wallis concept to keep strike aircraft safe while dropping nuclear bombs? Source: Gibson and Buttler
  • Reviewed: Leonard K. Carson

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 17:07, 1 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Tychon (missile); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• QPQ not done. Article new enough (1 December), long enough (5756 characters), referenced with inline citations, sources appear reliable, copyvio tool returns violation unlikely, complies with other WP policies, hook is short enough and cited in article. --Ykraps (talk) 09:30, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
  • QPQ done. GTG. --Ykraps (talk) 07:56, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz and Ykraps: Please help me find the hook parts in our article WP:DYKHFC. I am struggling to find the different parts of the hook and then connect them together. Also there are only two sources in this article? One source is cited ten times and the other is cited three times. Are there more sources which can be used in the article? Bruxton (talk) 15:35, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@Bruxton: Those are the only two useful sources that I have found. Which parts of the hook are you having problems with? I just noticed now that it is Burke that explicitly mentions the nuclear role, not G&B, although this is assumed in their use of the "strike aircraft" in RAF parlance. G&B has an illustration that shows how the concept keeps the aircraft safe. Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:45, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz and Ykraps: I have trouble finding these in the article: "was developed from a Barnes Wallis" and "keep strike aircraft safe while dropping nuclear bombs?" Bruxton (talk) 19:51, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

"Bristol Guided Weapons proposed a weapon called Tychon, which has also been described as a powered version of the Momentum Bomb. Developed by none other than Barnes Wallis" ... "Strike aircraft performs a toss bombing attack, but enters Air Defence and is vulnerable" ... "by flying an offset path and releasing the bomb in a turn, off-track targets can be attacked with impunity" and from Burke "... was offered in nuclear, tv-guided and anti-radar versions." Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:21, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz: I think User:Bruxton's issue is that that particular part is not repeated in the main text and therefore requires a citation in the lede; which I have now added. --Ykraps (talk) 08:43, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Ahhh, got it, thanks. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:43, 10 December 2023 (UTC)