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The Sprint was a two-stage, solid-fuel anti-ballistic missile (ABM), armed with a W66 enhanced-radiation thermonuclear warhead used by the United States Army during 1975–76. It was designed to intercept incoming reentry vehicles (RV) after they had descended below an altitude of about 60 kilometres (37 mi), where the thickening air stripped away any decoys or radar reflectors and exposed the ...
Major General Gladeon M. Barnes (right) and JPL Acting Director Frank Malina (left) stand below the 39-foot Corporal E, which was launched in May 1947.. The U.S. Army Ordnance California Institute Technology program that eventually produced the Corporal ballistic missile began in June 1944 with a contract to the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories California Institute of Technology (GALCIT ...
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The initial version, Tochka, NATO reporting name Scarab A, entered service with the Soviet Army in 1975. [8] It carried one of four types of warhead: 9M123F unitary High explosive warhead. Weight 420 kilograms (930 lb). [8] 9M123K submunitions warhead. Anti-personnel, anti-armour and anti-runway submunitions available. [8] 9M79B nuclear.
The Martin Marietta SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I was the United States' first multistage intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in use from 1959 until 1962. Though the SM-68A was operational for only three years, it spawned numerous follow-on models that were a part of the U.S. arsenal and space launch capability.
A S-8 KOM HEAT/FRAG rocket. 80mm Rocket Pods of a SLAF Mi-24. The S-8 is a rocket weapon developed by the Soviet Air Force for use by military aircraft. It remains in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces and various export customers. Developed in the 1970s, the S-8 is an 80 mm (3.1 in) rocket used by fighter bombers and helicopters.
The missile is 5.0 ft (1.52 m) long and 2.8 in (70 mm) in diameter, with 3.9 in (100 mm) fins. The missile itself weighs 22 lb (10.1 kg), while the missile with its launch tube and integral sight, fitted with a gripstock and identification friend or foe (IFF) antenna, weighs approximately 34 lb (15.2 kg).
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