AIM-68 Quetzalcoati "Big Q"

[CTimm]

I did what I could with what little information had to work with.

Enjoy!

 

[jsport]

Is this real?
"1995" is mentioned along w/ 1965.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Did you read it and look at the sources?

It is real.

The US Navy made a couple of requests in 1995 to acquirethe RIM-68A designation for the Standard Missile Block IVto keep the sequence linear with the RIM-66 Standard Medium Range and RIM-67 Standard Extended Range butwas denied both times. The SM Blk IV subsequently received the RIM-156 designation.

In 1995 the Navy tried to REUSE the -68 number for RIM-68 which would be conveniently next to RIM-66 and RIM-67. They weren't allowed to resuse the number as it had been used by the earlier AIM-68.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

I did what I could with what little information had to work with.

Enjoy!

Cheers for this - I didn't know about this missile.

 

[BlackBat242]

Part of the low priority given this missile by the USAF was that it already had a guided air-air nuclear missile... the AIM-26A Falcon, in service from 1961 with Air Defense Command F-102s. The AIM-26B had a conventional warhead.

This missile was a larger longer-range version of the AIM-4 Falcon.

The AIM-26A used a .5 kt yield W54 warhead (the same as in the M388 recoilless rifle "Davy Crockett").

The AIR-2 Genie used a 1.5-1.7 kt W25 warhead. It entered service in 1957 with F-86Ds, then F-101Bs in January 1959, and then with F-106s in June 1959.

 

[CTimm]

Wind tunnel model pic.

Other than the full-size mock-up and the sub-scale test flight at WSMR I haven't found any evidence of the full size vehicle ever being flight tested.

 

[BROF]

A nice Big Q...

 

[NMaude]

The AIR-2 Genie used a 1.5-1.7 kt W25 warhead. It entered service in 1957 with F-86Ds, then F-101Bs in January 1959, and then with F-106s in June 1959.

What about the F-102A?

 

[capitan r8]

it's Quetzalcoatl , with "L"... not "i".

"Big Q" to avoid errors, lol.

 

[SOC]

What about the F-102A?

Never used the Genie. F-102A got a nuke in the form of the AIM-26A.

 

[CTimm]

The pictures & 1 report.

 

[NMaude]

F-102A got a nuke in the form of the AIM-26A.

Heh, I'd forgot about that and AIM-26A was certainly better than the unguided AIR-2A rocket.

 

[BlackBat242]

Heh, I'd forgot about that and AIM-26A was certainly better than the unguided AIR-2A rocket.

I had discussed the AIM-26 in my post that you quoted - at the beginning of the post.