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Navaho The goal of the reformulated Navaho program was to produce a surface-to-surface cruise missile capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead 10,200 km at a speed of at least Mach 2.75 with a CEP (Circular Error Probability - diameter within which half of the missiles would impact) of 450 m. The seven remaining Navahos were to be tested in support the of the B-70 bomber and F-108 long-range interceptor programs, but after two unsuccessful launches the project was completely cancelled at the urging of the B-70 Weapons System Project Office. The Navaho G-26 was a test version of the operational Navaho G-38 which would have been the fullfillment of the A-9/A-10 concept. www.astronautix.com /lvfam/navaho.htm   (938 words)

Guided missile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) After the boost-stage ballistic missiles follow a trajectory mainly determined by ballistics, the guidance is for relatively small deviations from that. Today the ballistic missile represents the only strategic deterrent in most military forces; the USAFs continued support of manned bombers is considered by some to be entirely political in nature. Another major German missile development project was the anti-shipping class (such as the Fritz X and Henschel Hs 293), intended to stop any attempt at a cross-channel invasion. libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Guided_missile.html   (887 words)

Cape Canaveral Rocket and Missile Programs: The Navaho program was born in 1947 as part of a plan to create an unmanned winged cruise missile which could fly a desired range of 5,500 miles. Since these four missiles laid the foundation for generations of space launch vehicles which sent men to the Moon and continue to carry satellites into space, the Navaho missile deserves a special place of honor despite the fact it was never operationally deployed. The last Navaho XSM-64 missile known to exist is on permanent display outside the south entrance gate to Cape Canaveral Air Station, where it was moved in March, 1999 after undergoing an extensive refurbishing project sponsored by the Air Force Space and Missile Museum. www.spaceline.org /rocketsum/navaho.html   (542 words)

Other Missiles & More The SRAM missile program was inaugurated on 23 November 1963 when Headquarters SAC submitted a requirement to the Air Staff for a short-range air-to-surface attack missile for its G and H model B-52 Stratofortresses. The air-to-ground GAM-87 Skybolt missile was scheduled for introduction on the B-52Hs in lieu of the AGM-28 Hound Dog Missile Hound Dogs carried on the B-52Gs. The AS-3 (Kangaroo) air-to-surface missile is a large, supersonic, turbojet-powered, cruise missile weighing approximately 24,500 lb with a range of 100 to 350 nm. www.ammsalumni.org /html/other_missiles___more.html   (2359 words)

Navaho Navaho was cancelled due to the success of faster, unstoppable ballistic missiles. The engine developed for an earlier version of Navaho was used in the Redstone rocket; that developed for the G-26 booster was used in the Atlas A and Atlas B ballistic missiles. At the time the Navaho program was cancelled (13 July 1957) the missiles were in fabrication with first flight test planned by the end of 1958. www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/lvfam/navaho.htm   (1030 words)

SM-64 Navaho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The booster rocket accelerated the cruise missile to nearly Mach 3, where the ramjet engines were ignited and the booster was jettisoned. With the cancellation of the Navaho and the promise of ICBMs in the stratigic missle role, the first two were cancelled as well, though the Lavochkin project, which had some successful test flights, was carried on for RandD purposes and the Tupolev was reworked as a big, fast reconnaissance drone. The missile is named after the Navajo Nation and is in keeping with North American Aviation's habit of naming projects with code names starting with the letters "NA". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SM-64_Navaho   (571 words)

Navaho missile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) After propelling the missile to altitude (43,000 feet) at a speed of nearly Mach 3, the booster was jettisoned. The Navaho missile shown in the picture was at the Air Force Space and Missile Museum. This missile is the only Navaho in existence, being the only surviving missile of the six that remained when the project was cancelled. www.robsv.com /cape/c9lv.html   (228 words)

NAVAHO RESTORATION PROJECT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Top Middle: The Navaho missile at the museum is shown being lowered to the ground as workers begin the complex tatsk of its restoration. The process of taking the missile down began on September 12 last year when several cranes moved into position to begin the complex, multi-day task of lowering the massive vehicle to the ground. Once secure, both missile and cradle were lowered to the ground and onto the back of a flatbed truck that was driven to Hangar C where the actual restoration process is being conducted. www.space.edu /LibraryResearch/swanson/NAVAHO.htm   (1056 words)

Navaho (SM-64) Built by North American Aviation, the SM-64 Navaho was an experimental supersonic intercontinental cruise missile with a design range of about 6,500 km (3,500 miles). The booster accelerated the cruise missile to nearly Mach 3, at which point the ramjet engines were ignited and the booster was jettisoned. From the Navaho was derived the engines for the Redstone, Thor, Jupiter, Atlas, Titan I, and Saturn I rockets. www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/Navaho.html   (378 words)

Herb York: Race to Oblivion [1970] Missiles of this type are usually known as "cruise missiles" or "air-breathing missiles." Other missiles are shaped more like elongated bullets and are rapidly accelerated to high velocities by rocket motors. Some missiles are designed to be used for strategic warfare; i.e., their purpose is to eliminate the basic war-making potential of any enemy by killing his people and destroying his factories. The V-2 was a ballistic missile propelled by a rocket motor using alcohol as its fuel and liquid oxygen as its oxidizer. www.learnworld.com /ZNW/LWText.York.Race.Ch05.html   (9462 words)

SM-64 Navaho United States Nuclear Forces The missile was 70 feet long, configured with a canard, "V" tail, and 28-foot delta wing. Nevertheless, USAF saw the Navaho project as a leap forward in the state of the art of missile technology. Air Force Space & Missile Museum rolls out restored Navaho missile Jul 10, 1998 -- The Air Force Space and Missile Museum is rolling out the only Navaho missile in existence after a two-year restoration effort to repair damage from corrosion. www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/icbm/sm-64.htm   (1020 words)

[4.0] The Missile Race Begins A missile armed with such a powerful fusion warhead would not need to be as accurate as one armed with a less powerful fission warhead. As long as the missile came down in the general area, the fusion warhead would be powerful enough to destroy the target. In an analog computer, the missile's trajectory, acceleration, and other parameters were modeled by electrical waveforms that changed in step with the inputs from guidance sensors, with simple electronic circuits modifying the waveforms to perform calculations. www.vectorsite.net /tamrc_04.html   (7194 words)

Spaceflight :Postwar U.S. Rocketry Known as the embryo of the Army missile programs the Corporal was a surface-to-surface guided missile that could deliver either a nuclear or high-explosive warhead up to a range of 75 nautical miles. It was the first truly large missile, standing 46 feet (14 meters) tall and carrying a ton of high explosive for nearly 200 miles (322 kilometers). Von Braun won permission to develop the Redstone missile, which was to carry an atomic bomb to a distance of 200 miles (322 kilometers). www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/SPACEFLIGHT/postwar_rocketry/SP8.htm   (1695 words)

Air Force Space & Missile Museum rolls out restored Navaho missile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Eleven Navaho missiles were launched from the Cape between 1956 and 1958. Although the Navaho program was canceled before the missile became operational, test launches resulted in numerous technical advancements. The inertial guidance system developed for Navaho enabled the USS Nautilus to be the first submarine to travel under the polar ice cap. www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/icbm/n19980710_981014.html   (500 words)

Boeing: History -- Products -- North American Aviation SM-64 Navaho Missile The X-10 Navaho test drone was the first turbojet-powered vehicle to reach Mach 2 and the first aircraft to fly a complete mission under inertial (computerized) guidance. The Navaho program was canceled in July 1957 when, after extensive testing at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Atlas ICBM was chosen over winged missile designs. On July 13, 1998, exactly 41 years from the day when the Navaho was canceled, and after two years restoring the X-10, the Air Force Space and Missile Museum rolled out the only Navaho missile in existence and placed it on display. www.boeing.com /history/bna/navaho.htm   (335 words)

Atomic Audit: Box 2-2: Weapons That Did Not Make the Cut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Navaho was a supersonic cruise missile whose roots could be traced to the early postwar American efforts to modify and upgrade the German V-1. The Navaho, like the Snark (another cruise missile, thirty of which were deployed for four months at Presque Isle, Maine, at a cost of $4.2 billion), failed for a number of reasons. As originally conceived, Skybolt was to have been a 39-foot (11.9-meter), 11,000-pound (5,000-kilogram), two-stage missile with a range of some 950 nautical miles (1,759 kilometers) when dropped from a B-52 at a height of 40,000 feet (12,192 meters). www.brook.edu /fp/projects/nucwcost/box2-2.htm   (2005 words)

A picture tour highlighting the dozens of exhibits on display at theAir Force Space and Missile Museum Guests of the Air Force Space and Missile Museum at Cape Canaveral enjoy learning about the historic rockets and missiles from the people who worked on them, such as museum volunteer Bob Whitney, who is standing in front of the gantry used to launch America's first satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958. Another of the early cruise missile concepts was the Snark, which could be fired from a portable trailer to deliver its bomb hundreds of miles away. The white rocket behind the Snark is a Thor missile, the parent of the Delta rocket, which is still launched today from the two launch pads seen in the distance. www.space.com /news/spacehistory/capetour_album_000724.html   (593 words)

North American SM-64 Navaho A turbojet-powered RTV-A-5 aerodynamic test vehicle would be followed by the SSM-A-4 Navaho II ramjet-powered test and evaluation (and possibly interim operational) model, and later by the ultimate SSM-A-6 Navaho III full-range operational missile. The test flights of the X-10 between 1953 and 1956 verified the basic aerodynamic design of the cruise stage, and in late 1956 testing of the G-26 was to begin. The missile used a North American N-6 inertial navigation system for guidance, but was also equipped with a radio-command uplink and telemetry downlink for testing purposes. www.designation-systems.net /dusrm/app1/sm-64.html   (860 words)

Cape Canaveral Rocket and Missile Programs: Redstone Since nuclear warheads were still relatively heavy at the time, the Redstone missile was designed to carry a 6,000-pound warhead a distance of 500 miles. The range was later reduced to 200 miles to allow the application of existing Navaho missile engine technology. ABMA development and testing of the Pershing missile began at about the same time the Redstone was declared operational. www.spaceline.org /rocketsum/redstone.html   (801 words)

Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Navaho was considered to have the range, accuracy, and load-carrying capabilities of a ballistic missile. The missile's inertial guidance system was installed in nuclear submarines, navy attack aircraft, and the Hound Dog and Minuteman missiles. Tests of the X-10 and Navaho were conducted at the Cape between August, 1955 and September, 1958. www.space.edu /LibraryResearch/swanson/Exhibits/Navaho.htm   (255 words)

Atwood 2, Oral History Project, NASM/SI We were designing and developing technology to support a long range cruise missile which was called by the Air Force the Navaho missile, and that became quite a project. So we had designed the cruise missile which was to cruise at Mach 3 1/4 and have a range of 5500 miles, and guidance system so that on termination, it would dive in and explode at the objective, and that guidance system was to have an average miss error of one nautical mile. I might add that the wings and body of the Navaho itself were being built in what we began to call the missile division, which was the third element of that--if you ignore the atomic energy, that was the fourth element of that MACE division or MACE organization. www.nasm.si.edu /research/dsh/TRANSCPT/ATWOOD2.HTM   (8798 words)

Navaho G-26 The supersonic intercontinental cruise missile was made obsolete by the Atlas ICBM. Already-built Navaho G-26 test missiles were flown to the end of 1958. At the time the program was cancelled full-range G-38 missiles were in fabrication with first flight test planned by the end of 1958. www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/lvs/navhog26.htm   (491 words)

NAVAHO Cruise Missile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) A small sampling of images of the restored Navaho missile at Cape Canaveral in Florida. So, if you are interested in the Navaho, here are a few low rez (for the web) photos that are a sampling of over 65 giant 3200x2400 digital originals taken by yours truly and can be obtained on CD. The last photo in this series is rather large at 1600x1200 to show the kind of detail and sharpness that exists in most of the images. www.accur8.com /Navaho/navaho_cruise_missile.htm   (136 words)

North American Aviation The cancellation was a result of the successes of the Atlas ballistic missile program; the Navaho 3000 mile ramjet cruise missile was not deemed competitive for the mission. I recall Joe Berrer (Joe was president of the Missile Division at the time; not sure of the spelling of his last name) retuning from Inglewood where he had met with Dutch Kindleberger and Lee Atwood regarding the contract award and telling us that it had been decided to name the GAM-77 as "Hounddog". I learned to read the time code generator that had the time on the oscillographs, and took the Missile Operators notes and the GMT time and the curves plotted on each instrument and we could find out what voltages were spiking, pressures, all the that was going on. www.ammsalumni.org /html/north_american_aviation.html   (3201 words)

Navaho.htm Begun as an X program vehic le, the X-10, the Navaho was mated to a liquid booster and fitted with ramjets to help wing its nuclear gift to distant and exotic locale across the globe. The final 3 Navahos in flying condition were flown as target drones for the BoMarc (that must have really gotten North Americans goat) The cruise missile portion was reworked and outfitted with turbojets and flown for many years as the "Hound Dog" hung from the wings of B-52s. The Navaho is the Holy Grail of rockets for me, I spent much time researching it and chasing leads. www.aeroconsystems.com /Navaho.htm   (1232 words)

The Navaho Missile Project...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Navaho program is the least known, yet the most important of the United States early missile programs. In rocket technology alone the Navaho made possible the Thor, Jupiter and Redstone missiles. The Navaho project achieved major advances in every discipline of engineering and electronics. www.booksforcollectors.com /books/titles/SCH0041.htm   (362 words)

Rocket Genealogy Although the Navaho program did not last long, its legacy was significant. The Navaho booster engine, adapted from the V-2, was used in the development of Atlas, Redstone, Jupiter, Thor, and Titan I. Atlas D, the first operational ICBM, was deployed in 1959. These missiles were later refurbished as space launch vehicles. www.aero.org /publications/crosslink/winter2003/backpage.html   (552 words)

MSFC Propulsion Center of Excellence is Built on Solid Foundation For the first time a turbopump was incorporated, powered by an 80-percent hydrogen-peroxide steam generator.<4> In the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, V-2 rocket motor technology directly influenced plans for the development of missiles and rockets in the United States. The Navaho production contract was later canceled, but its research and development effort directly influenced future rocket engines, including the engine for the Redstone. On May 31, 1957, an Army Jupiter Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile was fired to an altitude of 250 to 350 miles and to a range of 1,500 miles, marking the limit of its design capability and the first successful flight of such a missile. history.msfc.nasa.gov /saturn_apollo/propulsion_center.html   (3693 words)

Navaho - HighBeam Encyclopedia Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Navaho" at HighBeam. The Use of the Thematic Apperception Test in the Study of Native American Psychological Characteristics: A Review and Archival Study of Navaho Men. Golf: Navaho Indian Notah is hunting the big scalps at Wentworth.(Features) www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Navaho.html   (231 words)

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