Northrop SM-62 Snark is an early-model intercontinental range ground-launched cruise missile that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead. The Snark was deployed...
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Atomic Demolition Munition (1965–1989) Missile and Rocket warheads W4 for SM-62 Snark cruise missile (cancelled 1951) W5 for MGM-1 Matador cruise missile (1954–1963)...
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biological weapon. SM-62 Snark, an American intercontinental nuclear cruise missile Sopwith Snark, a British experimental fighter plane Barber Snark, a New Zealand...
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but lacked its parachute, fins, and "false" nose. It was used on the SM-62 Snark missile, PGM-11 Redstone short-range ballistic missile, and in the B-58...
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soap". SM-62 Snark cruise missile, and its prospective supersonic successor, the SSM-A-5 Boojum Snark (graph theory) graphs named after Carroll's Snark Boojum...
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projects had been canceled: the Air Materiel Command Banshee, the SM-62 Snark, the SM-64 Navaho, and the MGM-1 Matador. The Banshee design was similar...
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Mace The Northrop SM-62 Snark was an early-model intercontinental cruise missile that could carry a W39 nuclear warhead. The Snark was deployed from 1958...
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Presque Isle Air Force Base (redirect from Snark Missile Launch Complex)
became the site for the only operational launch complex for the Northrop SM-62 Snark Intercontinental Cruise Missile (ICM). Adjacent to the base, its coordinates...
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United 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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comparable role, configuration, and era CIM-10 Bomarc North American X-10 SM-62 Snark Burya Related lists List of military aircraft of the United States List...
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both tactical surface-to-surface; CIM-10 Bomarc Interceptor Missile; SM-62 Snark Intercontinental Cruise Missile; Intercontinental ballistic missile and...
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SSM-A-5 Boojum, a planned, but never completed, supersonic version of the SM-62 Snark, an intercontinental cruise missile Boojum (restaurant), a chain of Mexican...
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experimental flying wing bombers, the F-89 Scorpion interceptor, the SM-62 Snark intercontinental cruise missile, and the F-5 Freedom Fighter economical...
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determined to be too ambitious given technical difficulties with the SM-62 Snark which it was planned to follow, and it was canceled in 1951. As part...
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Station Launch Complex 1 (1955—1960), used during development of the SM-62 Snark Intercontinental Cruise Missile Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch...
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the SM-62 Snark in Florida. Later moving to Maine as an operational unit, it was inactivated in 1959 when Strategic Air Command reorganized its Snark missile...
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April 1951. A variant called the W4 (Warhead 4), intended for use on the SM-62 Snark cruise missile, was designed but never built. The W4 design was canceled...
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inertial navigation system errors with celestial observations, for the SM-62 Snark missile, and a separate system for the ill-fated AGM-48 Skybolt missile...
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F-101 Voodoo North American F-100 Super Sabre Northrop N-94 Northrop SM-62 Snark Vought F-8 Crusader JT3P Boeing 367-80 JT3C (Civilian) Boeing 707 Boeing...
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astro-inertial navigation system (first such system tested on the Northrop SM-62 Snark cruise missile) and a Defensive Management System (DMS) to inform the...
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Before cancellation, it had been intended for use on the SM-62 Snark missile. Instead, the Snark ended up using the W39 (see below). The W39 nuclear warhead...
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correct inertial navigation errors with celestial observations, for the SM-62 Snark missile, and a separate system for the ill-fated AGM-48 Skybolt missile...
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(IATA) airport code. The runway was first called the Skid Strip because SM-62 Snark cruise missiles (which lacked wheels) returning from test flights were...
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500 kg (18,700 lb) 930 kg (2,050 lb) W28 thermonuclear Decommissioned SM-62 Snark Surface-to-surface missile, intercontinental United States 10,200 km...
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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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capable of supersonic speeds. Its first project was the development of the SM-62 Snark cruise missile. This track was so successful that an extension was constructed...
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Chance Vought SLV-1 Blue Scout Convair SM-65D Atlas Douglas PGM-17A Thor McDonnell GAM-72 Quail Northrop SM-62 Snark North American GAM-77 Hound Dog Apollo...
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(air-to-air) Sky Sword II (TC-2) (air-to-air) SLAM SLAM-ER SM-62 Snark SM-73 Goose (decoy cruise missile) SM-74 (proposed decoy cruise missile) Sotka (popular...
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SLED/Snark launch complex. (32°55′35″N 106°08′27″W / 32.92639°N 106.14083°W / 32.92639; -106.14083 (SLED/Snark Launch Complex)) Used for testing SM-62...
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in January 1959 at Presque Isle Air Force Base, Maine to be the only SM-62 Snark missile wing in the USAF. In April, the wing was assigned the 556th Strategic...
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