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    The North American SM-64 Navaho was a supersonic intercontinental cruise missile project built by North American Aviation (NAA). The final design was capable...
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    for SM-62 Snark cruise missile and PGM-11 Redstone SRBM (cancelled 1954) W15 for SM-62 Snark cruise missile (cancelled 1957) W21 for SM-64 Navaho cruise...
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    subscale reusable design that included many of the design features of the SM-64 Navaho missile. The X-10 was similar to the development of the Bell X-9 Shrike...
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    were cancelled by 1948: the Air Materiel Command Banshee, the SM-62 Snark, the SM-64 Navaho, and the MGM-1 Matador. The Banshee design was similar to Operation...
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  • States. Analogous developments in the United States were the SM-62 Snark and SM-64 Navaho cruise missiles, particularly the latter, which used parallel...
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    Hustler weapons pod. It was designated as a possible warhead to use in the SM-64 Navaho missile prior to the latter's cancellation. A lower-yield variant of...
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  • a breed of sheep Piper PA-31 Navajo, a light, twin engine airplane SM-64 Navaho, an experimental cruise missile USS Navajo, the name of more than one...
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    won the contract to build a long-range cruise missile that became the SM-64 Navaho. This used ramjet power and needed to be boosted up to operational speed...
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    North American SM-64 Navaho Vought SSM-N-9 Regulus II Related lists List of missiles List of military aircraft of the United States Northrop SM-62 Snark. National...
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    Livermore National Laboratory. Investigated as a possible warhead for the SM-64 Navaho, a cruise missile then in development, work on the warhead continued...
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  • ramjet engine developed in the 1950s to help propel the rocket-launched SM-64 Navaho supersonic intercontinental cruise missile. Although the design flight...
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    (though uncrewed) were produced after the war in the form of the US SM-64 Navaho missile and the USSR's Burya, both intercontinental cruise missiles with...
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    as "drift". For instance, the N-1 navigation system developed for the SM-64 Navaho cruise missile drifted at a rate of 1 nautical mile per hour, meaning...
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  • American DC-3 Skylab Rescue Space Shuttle AGM-28 Hound Dog AGM-64 Hornet RTV-A-3 NATIV SM-64 Navaho S-II second stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle Little Joe...
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    Earlier efforts to use computers for guidance, BINAC and the system on the SM-64 Navaho, had failed and were abandoned. The Air Force and Autonetics spent millions...
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    P-800 Oniks R-77PD R-77ME Bendix RIM-8 Talos Sea Dart North American SM-64 Navaho Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet YJ-12 Index of aviation articles Aircraft engine...
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    spaceplane, the X-15B that would launch into outer space from atop an SM-64 Navaho missile. This was canceled when the NACA became NASA and adopted Project...
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  • to replace the XW13 in the weapons pod of the B-58 bomber and for the SM-64 Navaho missile. At the same time the Mk-21 bomb was being developed, the Mk-15...
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  • used in the table, e.g., Lockheed CL-282 for the U-2. "North American SM-64 Navaho". www.designation-systems.net. "MX - Military and Government". www.acronymfinder...
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    engineer with Rocketdyne in Los Angeles; in this capacity, he worked on the SM-64 Navaho supersonic cruise missile. In June 1956, he enlisted in the United States...
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    supersonic technologies developed for the Mach 3 SM-64 Navaho, as well as a modified form of the Navaho's inertial guidance system. The XB-70 used compression...
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    was used for ten test launches of SM-64 Navaho supersonic nuclear-armed cruise missiles. In addition to LC-9, Navaho tests were also conducted at LC-10...
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    (350 kN) for the Redstone missile. NAA had also been working on the SM-64 Navaho cruise missile project, which used the same engine as a booster to get...
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  • stuff") the Titan family of ICBMs, successors of Atlas the cancelled SM-64 Navaho, an experimental cruise missile developed by the U. S. Air Force the...
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    Length: 23.3 m Diameter: 2.40 m Wing span: 11.6 m Wing area: 98 m2 SM-62 Snark SM-64 Navaho Burya Hendrickx, Bart; Vis, Bert (2007-12-05). Energiya-Buran:...
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    employed by North American Aviation at Inglewood, where he worked on the Navaho Missile Program. He and Cameron moved into a house in Manhattan Beach, where...
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  • numbers transitioning to sequential. Sample vehicle designation "SSM-A-2 Navaho" Sample test vehicle designation "RTV-G-1 WAC Corporal" United States Air...
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    launches were made, six were successful. Program terminated in 1949. SM-64 Navaho missile planned but not tested. Holloman Able-51/ZEL (32°52′47″N 106°03′38″W...
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    developed in the SM-64 Navaho missile, adapted for launching from the B-52. The Hound Dog's design was based on that of the Navaho G-38 missile, which...
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    LN-3/PHI-4. This system was derived from the XN-6 system developed for the SM-64 Navaho, the N5G system for the AGM-28 Hound Dog and the N2C/N2J/N3A/N3B system...
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