Green Cheese missile
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The Green Cheese missile was a British anti-ship missile project of the 1950s. It was developed by Fairey Aviation, and was originally called Fairey Project 7 and was supposed to be used by the Fairey Gannet. Unfortunately, the missile's 1724 kg (3800 lb) weight proved to be too heavy for the Gannet, and it was incompatible with the Blackburn Buccaneer's rotating bomb bay. The project was cancelled in 1956 and replaced with the equally unsuccessful Green Flash missile, and then succeeded by the improved Cockburn Cheese missile.