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    The PGM-11 Redstone was the first large American ballistic missile. A short-range ballistic missile (SRBM), it was in active service with the United States...
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  • The first member of the Redstone family was the PGM-11 Redstone missile, from which all subsequent variations of the Redstone were derived. The Juno 1...
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    XW-46 for PGM-11 Redstone SRBM and SM-62 Snark cruise missile (cancelled 1958) W47 for UGM-27 Polaris A-1 and A-2 SLBMs (1960–1974) W49 for PGM-19 Jupiter...
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  • support system, named for the Arsenal PGM-11 Redstone, U.S. missile and carrier rocket, namesake of the family USNS Redstone (T-AGM-20), a tracking/communications...
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  • missile system, PGM-11 Redstone M478 truck, erector, guided missile, PGM-11 Redstone M479 trailer, missile battery shop, PGM-11 Redstone M480 trailer, missile...
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    Argentina group. There, he worked on developing guidance systems for the PGM-11 Redstone, PGM-19 Jupiter, MGM-31 Pershing, and the Saturn I missiles. In 1960 Mueller...
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  • ballistic missile designed and built by Martin Marietta to replace the PGM-11 Redstone missile as the primary nuclear-capable theater-level weapon of the...
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    to fit in submarines. Jupiter traces its history ultimately to the PGM-11 Redstone missile, the US's first nuclear ballistic missile. While it was entering...
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    was one designed for the military PGM-11 Redstone missile rather than the shorter cable designed for Mercury-Redstone. This control cable had been clamped...
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    was used in various versions of the Atlas, PGM-11 Redstone, PGM-17 Thor, PGM-19 Jupiter, Mercury-Redstone, and the Juno series; it is therefore the direct...
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    through a series of improvements and ultimately became the PGM-11 with the popular name Redstone rocket. To expedite development, an existing engine was...
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  • engineers to enter the United States, where he served in directing the PGM-11 Redstone program. Schulze was born to farmers Matthes and Marie Kopf Schulze...
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    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 Hustler weapons pod...
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  • 1940s MX-774 (1946) "The United States Army | Redstone Arsenal Historical Information". history.redstone.army.mil. United States Army. Retrieved 8 October...
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    (MR-BD) May 5, 1961: Redstone MRLV-7 (MR-3) July 21, 1961: Redstone MRLV-8 (MR-4) Preparations on May 16, 1958 for the first PGM-11 Redstone launch on May 17...
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  • making it the first human-made object to reach space. August 3, 1953 – PGM-11 Redstone, designed by Wernher von Braun, was the US's first large ballistic...
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    missile, the PGM-11 Redstone, based on the WWII German V-2 missile. Chrysler established the Missile Division to serve as the Redstone prime contractor...
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    airliner The only surviving Bell XV-15 experimental tiltrotor craft A PGM-11 Redstone rocket A SAM-N-2 Lark like the one which scored the first successful...
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    Iowa-class battleship delivering 406 mm W23 nuclear shells, 1956–1962. PGM-11 Redstone missile delivering the W39 nuclear weapon, 1958–1964 M110 howitzer...
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    with a highly accurate inertial guidance system was the short-range PGM-11 Redstone. Guidance systems are divided into different categories according to...
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    (31–311 mi) United States MGM-5 Corporal 1954 48–130 km (30–81 mi) PGM-11 Redstone 1958 92–323 km (57–201 mi) MGM-18 Lacrosse 1959 19 km (12 mi) MGM-29...
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    Wheel Base (LWB) Cargo Truck M506 truck, hydrogen peroxide servicer, PGM-11 Redstone V126 truck – for AN/MPX-7 radar experimental: XM142 experimental bomb...
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    telescoping tube, shoulder mount, M72 LAW (1963) M74 rocket platform, towed, PGM-11 Redstone M78 rocket launcher, for MIM-23 Hawk (1959) (M81 gun/missile launcher...
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    1945 with the MX-774. In 1950, von Braun began testing the Air Force PGM-11 Redstone rocket family at Cape Canaveral. By 1957, a descendant of the Air Force...
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    February 1958 (GMT). Redstone was later used as a launch vehicle in Project Mercury. Redstone was also deployed by the U.S. Army as the PGM-11, the first missile...
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    designed to evoke the curvy spaceship from Buck Rogers stories and the PGM-11 Redstone rocket. That early version also contained a randomly generated background...
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    weight of the rocket, rather than just reacting to side forces. The PGM-11 Redstone rocket is a direct descendant of the V-2. The USSR captured a number...
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    for the solid rocket motors. Mercury Space Capsule NASA X-38 V-131R PGM-11 Redstone North American X-15 (painted with AF Ser. No. 56-6672). A full-scale...
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  • is deliverable. 1953 – August 20 – The United States test-fires the PGM-11 Redstone rocket, its first ballistic missile. 1953 – October 30 – The United...
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    efforts via Operation Paperclip, which led to the development of the PGM-11 Redstone rocket. The Soviets used captured German engineers to reproduce technical...
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