China Lake missile - Snipe or Deneye?

[AN/AWW-14(V)]

Navy's jet and test range it's bomb look like a hornet missile, but what is it?




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in description of photo was making a mistake - Deneye program was is landmine theme

Weapons for Counterinsurgency

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[TomS]

The China Lake Alumni photo page says it's something called Snipe.

http://www.chinalakealumni.org/1969/1969mo.htm#thumb (Look under Q1)

But I don't think that's right either. Here is what Snipe actually looked like a few years earlier

https://flic.kr/p/8fpLKr

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(Also shown in this page from the China Lake Alumni site)

1965 China Lake Photo Gallery

Possibly Snipe's aero shape evolved from 1965 to 1969, though?

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Deneye was this:

https://flic.kr/p/2kU27WV

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[overscan (PaulMM)]

Snipe, which Station engineers conceived in 1962, was a small (72-pound) optically guided missile designed for ground attack from helicopters and small fixed-wing aircraft. The Army supported Snipe development for several years, but when that funding ceased, in 1969, the program was terminated.

Snipe is described elsewhere as a small Walleye.

Snipe:

Walleye:

 

[TomS]

Snipe, which Station engineers conceived in 1962, was a small (72-pound) optically guided missile designed for ground attack from helicopters and small fixed-wing aircraft. The Army supported Snipe development for several years, but when that funding ceased, in 1969, the program was terminated.

Snipe is described elsewhere as a small Walleye.

Snipe:

Walleye:

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I thought the smaller missile looked like a mini Walleye. Obviously if that orange and white missile is Snipe, the body shape changed considerably between the 1965 black and red weapon, which has two tapered body sections and rather crudely welded fins. Or possibly the 1965 photos are something else misidentified as Snipe.

 

[iverson]

Navy's jet and test range it's bomb look like a hornet missile, but what is it?

AGM-124 Wasp? It looks roughly the right size.

 

[TomS]

Navy's jet and test range it's bomb look like a hornet missile, but what is it?

AGM-124 Wasp? It looks roughly the right size.

Wasp was millimeter wave radar guided, not electro-optical. And it was a full decade or more later than these pictures.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Snipe pic from 1965.

https://flic.kr/p/2kU7xTj

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[overscan (PaulMM)]

Note that the missile at the start of this topic is carried on the same dual launcher pylon as Deneye.