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TV camera. It's clearly said in Navy news release.
DSMAC sensor I presume
DSMAC sensor I presume
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Camera from the DSMAC guidance system. It might be IR, but it's not an IIR seeker per se.I’ve always been curious, does the navy tomahawk Blk IV also have an IIR seeker? Some web articles think it has, but no authoritative source that confirms this.
NAVAIR mention: The Block IV missile is capable of loitering over a target area in order to respond to emerging targets or, with its on-board camera, provide battle damage information to warfighting commanders.
camera = seeker?
I'm getting 404 error when clicking on that link.
The newer Tomahawks also lost there drop down air intake which should also have reduced there RCS.
The newer Tomahawks also lost there drop down air intake which should also have reduced there RCS.
Yeah losing one makes also quite something. Would be interresting to know how mutch better/ smaller it is.and the vertical ventral fin . . .
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Robin.
During the Cold War, there were U.S. Navy proposals to convert and outfit the Iowa class battleships and Albany class guided-missile cruisers with Polaris missile launch tubes. If I recall correctly, the Iowa class battleships were projected to carry up to 16 Polaris SLBMs and the Albany class cruisers were planned to carry 8 Polaris SLBMs.
If those Polaris guided-missile warship conversions had been implemented, imagine later on those battleships' and cruisers' Polaris launch tubes being modified to carry the above-mentioned 5-tube Tomahawk missile modules. Each Iowa class battleship would have carried 80 Tomahawks while each Albany class cruisers would have carried 40 Tomahawks in their Polaris launch tubes.
These two threads on Secret Projects Forum mentioned proposals to install Polaris SLBMs on guided missile battleships and cruisers:HAve you got a link for this plan please?
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Here two pictures showing a F-4 carrying an early AGM-109A Tomahawk cruise missile during early testing at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. These pictures can be found at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Flickr Archive.A few pictures showing a A-6 carrying and launching a Tomahawk cruise missile can be found at the San Diego Air & Space Museum on Flickr. [...]
AGM-109A? I thought there was onlu AGM-109H/K/L? That's probably an L no?
Ah yes, I see it now, it was the nuclear ALCM version, the H/K and L were all conventional.As that page notes, there was a fly-off between AGM-109 and AGM-86B for the Air Force ALCM requirement. Those rounds should be AGM-109A but were almost always referred to AGM-109 without a letter.
In January 1977, the Carter administration initiated a program called JCMP (Joint Cruise Missile Project), which directed the USAF and the U.S. Navy to develop their cruise missiles using a common technology base. At that time, the Air Force was developing its AGM-86 ALCM (Air-Launched Cruise Missile). One consequence of JCMP was that only one cruise missile propulsion system (the Williams F107 turbofan of the AGM-86) and TERCOM guidance system (the McDonnell Douglas AN/DPW-23 of the BGM-109) would be further developed. Another one was a fly-off competition for the ALCM role between the AGM-86B and the AGM-109, an air-launched derivative of the YBGM-109A. After flights between July 1979 and February 1980, the AGM-86B was declared winner of the competition and the AGM-109 ALCM development was stopped.
Flight Serial | AGM-86B | AGM-109 |
1 | 03 Aug Crashed after 44 mins, "incorrect programming" during terrain-following | 17 Jul Three fly-over targets, 85 nav waypoints Ground recovery |
2 | 06 Sep | 01 Aug Two fly-over targets, 85 nav waypoints Ground recovery |
3 | 25 Sep 4hrs | 08 Sep Crashed 2 mins after release from B-52 rotary launcher, autopilot error Intended midair recovery |
4 | 09 Oct Commanded termination after 1hr 48 mins due to loss of datalink with chase F-4E | 29 Sep 4hrs Midair recovery |
5 | 21 Nov Crashed at Callao, UT after 2h 30 mins, "engine issue". | |
6 | 29 Nov | 15 Nov Fell into sea 1 min 30 secs after release, wings & tail failed to deploy |
7 | 04 Dec | 06 Dec Crashed after 52 mins |
8 | ||
9 | ?? Jan Successful | |
10 | 22 Jan 1980 Crashed after 20 mins whilst chase controller tried to steer it around clouds | 08 Feb 1980 First flight of Litton reference measuring unit & computer Midair recovery |
Anyone know what's going on with this BGM-109 Tomahawk on a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk seems like a cutdown version or something? These pictures can also be found at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Flickr Archive.Here two pictures showing a F-4 carrying an early AGM-109A Tomahawk cruise missile during early testing at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. These pictures can be found at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Flickr Archive.
View: https://flic.kr/p/2pDm8Yw
View: https://flic.kr/p/2pDneD4
I assume testing avionics or cluster munitions.Anyone know what's going on with this BGM-109 Tomahawk on a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk seems like a cutdown version or something? These pictures can also be found at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Flickr Archive.
Looking at second photo, might it be due to ground clearance?I assume testing avionics or cluster munitions.
What date is that pdf?Found a picture of a Tomahawk in an anechoic chamber in this report, page 75 .....
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Anyone know why some early AGM-109 picture show visible black smoke from the engine?
Could also be the engine not up to temperature yet, or just the fuel control running a bit rich.That photograph must've been taken when the AGM-109's engine was starting up, IIRC the Williams International F107 turbofan uses a black-powder starter cartridge to spin up the engine when it is started.
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I would like to ask if there are any detailed photos or drawings of the folding mechanism of tomahawk wings? I've searched everything but I can't find anything. In all the pictures I've seen the wings are in the same plane, but that's not possible because they wouldn't fit in the body. In the book "Evolution of cruise missile" it says that the wings are above each other (p. 155), that means asymmetric configuration, just like in kh-55.
Hello Perseus,Hello
I would like to ask if there are any detailed photos or drawings of the folding mechanism of tomahawk wings? [...]
Thank you very muchYes, Tomahawk's wing placement is slightly asymmetrical.
Look at the two sides of this example hanging at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
On the port side, the wing is inside of the blue stripe.
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On the starboard side, it is just at the top edge of the blue stripe.
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Thank you, very interresting photos.Hello Perseus,
there are a lot of pictures at SDASM Flickr Archives, showing the development of the Tomahawk cruise missile.
Here an example:
View: https://flic.kr/p/2cwx3MJ
Link SDASM Flickr Archives:
Still non-nuclear, which the old GLCMs were.Includes Tomahawk, so the army is now in the GLCM business