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    The Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt (AGM-48 under the 1963 Tri-service system) was a hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) developed by the United States...
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    WS-199 efforts in the 1950s, the U.S. Air Force began development of the GAM-87 Skybolt missile with range on the order of 1,150 miles (1,850 km). The only...
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    redesignated GAM-77, and finally AGM-28. It was conceived as a temporary standoff missile for the B-52, to be used until the GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched...
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    missiles from 1962 to 1969, and planned to be used on the cancelled GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile. Development of the Minuteman I ICBM...
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  • proved moderately successful and aided in the development of the later GAM-87 Skybolt ALBM. It was also used in early tests of anti-satellite weapons. As...
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    been examples of air-launched ballistic missiles (Air Launched ICBM, GAM-87 Skybolt), but they are rare. Sometimes air-to-surface missiles are divided into...
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    US W59, which the UK had gained as part of their involvement in the GAM-87 Skybolt program. The RAF was not happy with the primary stage of the W59, which...
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    successful in testing, and helped pave the way for development of the GAM-87 Skybolt ALBM. In addition, the Bold Orion was used in early anti-satellite weapons...
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    II, was considered, but cancelled in favour of the much longer-range GAM-87 Skybolt system from the US. When development of that system was cancelled in...
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    UGM-27 Polaris A-3 SLBM (1964–1982) W59 for LGM-30 Minuteman I ICBM and GAM-87 Skybolt ALBM (1962–1969) W60 for RIM-50 Typhon SAM (cancelled 1963) W61 for...
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  • Thor DSV-2U Thor-Burner Thor-Delta LIM-49 Spartan LIM-49 Nike Zeus GAM-87 Skybolt MGR-1 Honest John AIR-2 Genie (1956) MGR-3 Little John Delta Douglas...
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    radar, and armed with a proposed French version of the American Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile. This version would have been very costly...
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    none entered production, they assisted in the development of both the GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile and that of re-entry vehicles for ballistic...
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    remainder of the B-52G and B-52H fleet. A provision was made for four GAM-87 Skybolt ballistic missiles. The aircraft's first flight occurred on 10 July...
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    including as a 103-seat troop transport and as being armed with up to four GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missiles as a nuclear-armed bomber. In addition...
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    "Phase 6" bomber designed for standing patrols carrying two or four GAM-87 Skybolt ballistic missiles. HP.123 Proposed military tactical transport based...
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  • shipboard surface-to-air missile Sea Wolf shipboard surface-to-air missile Skybolt ALBM nuclear "stand-off missile" (British-American version) (never produced)...
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  • Stinger FROG-7 Gabriel (Ship-to-ship and air-to-ship variant) GAF Malkara GAM-87 Skybolt Ghauri-I (Pakistani) Ghauri-II (Pakistani) Ghauri-III Global Rocket...
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  • nuclear bomb with mod-12 tail guidance kit. Blue Steel Umbani DRDO SAAW GAM-87 Skybolt H-2 SOW H-4 SOW Ra'ad Mk-1 Ra'ad Mk-2 Takbir Barq Babur-1 Babur-1A Babur-2...
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    any event, work on the WS-199 projects ended with the start of the GAM-87 Skybolt project. Simultaneous US Navy projects were also abandoned although...
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  • medium-range ballistic missile in favor of the American-produced Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile, ending its attempts to produce an independent...
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    the Mk.2 version of Blue Steel was cancelled in favour of the Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile in December 1959, fittings were changed...
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  • the American GAM-87 Skybolt available to the British as soon as it was improved. The United Kingdom accepted the offer as the GAM-87 Skybolt would have...
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    This included the Mach 3 North American B-70 Valkyrie in 1961, the GAM-87 Skybolt missile in 1962, and the Rocky Mountain Deep Underground Support Center...
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    guidance/navigation systems for the SM-62 Snark. The system developed for the GAM-87 Skybolt was later adapted for use in the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and mostly...
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    missile research, preferring to simply purchase the U.S.-developed GAM-87 Skybolt missile. April 14 – A Thai-C-54 Skymaster crashes into Mount Wu Tse...
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    Force Base, Ohio. In October 1961, he was named program manager of the GAM-87 "Skybolt" at Air Force Systems Command's Aeronautical Systems Division. When...
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  • announced in Washington, D.C., that testing and development of the Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt air-to-surface ballistic missile had been assigned to Eglin AFB. "While...
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  • unintentionally frustrated the British bomber lobby's plans by cancelling its GAM-87 Skybolt project–a planned stand-off missile that had just been ordered for the...
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    continuing to develop independently the cancelled GAM-87 Skybolt. Wertheim was involved in the Skybolt project, and its cancelation during his time working...
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