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Typhon was a missile system developed by the United States Navy in the late 1950s, intended to serve as an integrated air-defense system for Navy fleets. Consisting of the SAM-N-8 Typhon LR, later designated RIM-50A, and the SAM-N-9 Typhon MR, later RIM-55A, paired with the AN/SPG-59 radar system, the cost of the Typhon system led to it being cancelled in favor of the Standard Missile program.
RIM-50 Typhon LR SAM; RIM-55 Typhon MR SAM; RIM-66 SM-1MR Standard Medium Range SAM; RIM-66 SM-2MR Standard Medium Range SAM; RIM-67 SM-1ER Standard Extended Range SAM; RIM-67 SM-2ER Standard Extended Range SAM; RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile SAM; RIM-156 SM-2ER Block IV SAM; RIM-161 SM-3 SAM; RIM-162 ESSM (Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile) SAM
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Typhon, also commonly referred to as the "Strategic Mid-range Fires System" (SMRF), is a United States Army transporter erector launcher for Standard SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Formerly known as the Midrange Capabilities System (MCS), it has since been renamed to the Strategic Mid-range Fires System (SMRF) and given the ...
The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) is a small, lightweight, infrared homing surface-to-air missile in use by the German, Japanese, Greek, Turkish, South Korean, Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, Mexican, UAE, and United States navies. It was originally intended and used primarily as a point-defense weapon against anti-ship missiles.
The Philippines hopes to procure mid-range capability missiles in future and wants to utilise a U.S.-deployed Typhon system for its military training, with no immediate plan for it to be returned ...
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The W60 weighed between 115 and 150 pounds (52 and 68 kg), was 20 inches (510 mm) long and 13 inches (330 mm) in diameter. [7]The warhead yield has been variously described as "lower than that of the W58" (which had a yield of 200 kilotonnes of TNT (840 TJ)) and "very low".