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 SCAD / ALCM studies to the ZAGM-86A

    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. flateric

    Raytheon (General Dynamics) AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missile (ACM)

    Stuff that too late I've found at eBay already being sold to other eBayer, but it proves that AGM-129 scale drawings were released by GD. All my attempts to contact buyer went nowhere. Anyone happy to have those and can share/sell them?
  8. Sentinel Chicken

    Raduga Kh-101 / Kh-102 / AS-23A / B Kodiak ALCM

    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.........
  9. flateric

    1989 Navy/USAF Long Range Conventional Standoff Weapon (LRCSW)

    Contenders 1).Boeing 2). GD 3).Texas Instruments 4).? ----------------------------- Boeing LRCSW From AIAA-92-0082 "A basic objective of the study was to develop a missile system design concept that would meet the mission requirements shown in figure 1. The missile program was the Long Range...
  10. D

    Unbuilt, experimental and unusual Boeing 747s

    In view of the material already presented in the forum this topic will surely motivate enough crossposting but I believe that the topic deserves to take their own place. -A 90's proposal of GE for a Super-AWACS. A wind tunnel model existed but I have not gotten pictures of the same one...
  11. 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...
  12. 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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