LTV YBGM-110 Cruise Missile Contender

[Abraham Gubler]

Great stuff!

 

[Mark Nankivil]

Good Day All -

Wind tunnel test model of the YGBM-110 in the Vought Low Speed Wind Tunnel. Credit to the Vought Heritage Foundation.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Awesome scan! Fingers crossed for a V-1100

 

[fightingirish]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1595931795765317633

View: https://twitter.com/MassiasThanos/status/1595931795765317633?t=lsXAT_6mK_2C-TnqkdIpZA&s=19

 

[Blueking]

As an engineer，I do not think the rotate wing is a good idea.
Range depends on fuel, fuel depends on internal space. The wing needs too much internal space.

 

[Yellow Palace]

As an engineer，I do not think the rotate wing is a good idea.
Range depends on fuel, fuel depends on internal space. The wing needs too much internal space.

The competitor had a folding wing, which will use a comparable amount of space - the major differences being the actuating machinery and packing efficiency. I expect the LTV (and General Dynamics!) engineers did their own trade studies on the possible solutions before arriving at conclusions.

 

[A Tentative Fleet Plan]

YBGM-110 was supposed to be launched without a canister. Was the increased structural weight (which I assume would be necessary to survive being launched from a torpedo tube) a good enough trade-off to regain the volume lost by the BGM-109s use of a canister?

 

[zjz]

IIRC,

YBGM-110 was built with a steel body, and thus can do w/o a canister for underwater launch.

while

YBGM-109 was built with an aluminum body, and thus has a steel outer canister for underwater launch.

I would think the steel vs aluminum body for the cruise missile would have impacted weights of the respective systems, which in turn affected the performance ...

 

[zjz]

Some random find ..... "Hearings on military posture and H.R. 3689"

Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 3689 (H.R. 6674), Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976, Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session

books.google.com.sg

or

Hearings on military posture and H.R. 3689 (H.R. 6674), Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 1976, before the Committee ... 4.

P.5220 onwards, quite a bit of history on the SLCM and ALCM ....