air launched cruise missile

  1. uk 75

    France's Ultimate Warning

    From the 70s to the end of the Cold War France deployed its own tracked vehicle launched battlefield nuclear missile, Pluton. A truck and trailer mounted replacement Hades was entering service as the Cold War ended. In peacetime Pluton and its warheads were stationed in France. However, once a...
  2. R

    Palletized munitions delivery vs traditional bombers

    Rapid dragon concept allow you to load cruise missile inside pallets and put on common cargo aircraft, then these cargo aircraft can launch all short of cruise missiles and bombs just like a bomber. For example: a C-17 can carry and launch 32 JASSM/LRASM missile For comparison, a dedicated...
  3. Bill S

    LTV YBGM-110 Cruise Missile Contender

    Artist concepts of BGM-110 Vought Archives
  4. RyanC

    Early ALCM studies - ZAGM-86A and AGM-86B

    The Midget ALCM and the one we know and love!
  5. fightingirish

    AGM-109 / BGM-109 Tomahawk / Gryphon Concepts, Projects and Prototypes

  6. bobbymike

    Current Nuclear Weapons Development

    More Than 23,000 Nukes Found in 14 Nations, Report Says Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 There are an estimated 23,360 nuclear weapons stockpiled in 14 nations, with the great majority held by Russia and the United States, two nonproliferation experts said in a report issued this week (see GSN, Oct...
  7. Sentinel Chicken

    Raduga Kh-101 Cruise Missile

    Interesting. I seem to recall there was a proposed Russian cruise missile design that also used a propfan. The ol' memory is a bit fuzzy on the details, but I seem to recall some sort of mid-fuselage mounted prop.........
  8. sferrin

    Cruise Missile Carrier Airliner conversions

    (anybody remember this book? :) ) I use to have this book years ago and in it there was a picture of a proposed 747 cruise missile carrier. It would have had nine of those 8-round rotary launchers that could apparently move around in the aircraft as the launch position was to the rear. Does...
  9. E

    TEAL DAWN, SENIOR PROM and ACM - precursors and alternatives to the AGM-129

    I'm pretty certain that SENIOR PROM was a competitor to the Northrop Program that became TSSAM (AGM-137A/BGM-137B). Whereas SENIOR PROM clearly builds on SENIOR TREND experience, TSSAM (under various code names) clearly builds on TACIT BLUE experience. Beyond that, I'd rather not comment.
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