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unusual facts about Guided Missile


The Karelia

Very few copies of the album sold (literally hundreds) and the band split in 1998 after contributing to an EP for the Guided Missile label.


ENTAC

ENTAC (ENgin Téléguidé Anti-Char) or MGM-32A was a French MCLOS wire-guided Anti-tank missile.

Holly Graf

Until January 2010 she was commanding officer of the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG-63), a major surface combatant vessel of the fleet.

Metallic hydrogen

The researchers used a 1960s-era light gas gun, originally employed in guided missile studies, to shoot an impactor plate into a sealed container containing a half-millimeter thick sample of liquid hydrogen.

Paul C. Donnelly

Paul Charles Donnelly (born March 28, 1923) is a retired American guided missile pioneer who was a senior NASA manager during the Apollo moon landing program at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

PR-72P-class corvette

Pennant numbers were originally P-101 to P-106, but were later modified to CM-21 to CM-26, where CM stands for corbeta misilera, Spanish for guided missile corvette.

QF 3.7-inch AA gun

It remained in use after the war until AA guns were replaced by guided missiles, notably the English Electric Thunderbird, in the late 1950s.

SS.12/AS.12

It was a derivative of the NORD SS-10 and SS-11 missiles which were surface-to-surface wire-guided missiles for use by infantry, vehicle or a helicopter primarily in the anti-tank role, but also anti-material, anti-personnel and against light field fortifications.


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9K11 Malyutka

On 23 April 1972, the recently organized ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) 20th Tank Regiment was attacked by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) employing the 9M14M Malyutka anti-tank guided missile for the first time.

AGM-12 Bullpup

Kh-23 (AS-7 'Kerry') – a Soviet command-guided missile inspired by the Bullpup

Army Ballistic Missile Agency

In March 1958, ABMA was placed under the new Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC) along with Redstone Arsenal, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, White Sands Proving Ground, and the Army Rocket and Guided Missile Agency (ARGMA).

Charles F. Adams-class destroyer

Although designed with cutting-edge technology for the 1950s, by the mid-1970s it was clear to the Navy that the Charles F. Adams-class destroyers were not prepared to deal with modern air attacks and guided missile.

Foster Friess

After graduating from college, Foster trained to be an infantry platoon leader and served as the intelligence officer for the First Guided Missile Brigade, Fort Bliss, Texas.

George Kenneth Lucey Jr.

Margo Lucey won the Miss District of Columbia beauty contest and later was the first runner-up to Miss America (1956) during which she married David Denton who became Commander of a guided missile destroyer, USS McCain.

Hatakaze-class destroyer

The Hatakaze class of guided missile destroyers is a third generation vessel in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

Impavido-class destroyer

The Impavido class were the second group of destroyers built for the Italian Navy (MMI) after World War II and the first Italian Guided Missile destroyers.

J.D. Malone

Malone spent one year in San Diego, California, in Navy schools and then five years on a guided missile cruiser, USS Biddle CG-34, based out of Norfolk, Virginia.

Kresta II-class cruiser

The Kresta II Class, Soviet Designation Project 1134A, Berkut A (Golden Eagle) were Soviet guided missile cruisers of the Cold War.

Lahat

LAHAT, an anti-tank guided missile manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries

LAV-25

:LAV fitted with an Emerson 901A1 TOW-2 ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile) launcher, the same turret that was fitted on the M901 ITV (Improved TOW Vehicle).

Marotta

Early manufacturing sub-contracts for prime contractors such as General Electric Corporation and RCA enabled Marotta to gain experience in what was to become a particular area of expertise – precision valves and machined components for the rocket and guided missile industry.

MGM-51 Shillelagh

In 1958 the Army thought that existing knowledge was sufficient to begin work on a guided missile with a HEAT warhead, and in June 1959 Sperry and Ford Aeronutronic were asked for designs to fill the shorter range role.

Mount Chōkai

Three ships have been named after Mount Chōkai: Chōkai, an early steam gunboat, and the cruiser Chōkai (sunk in 1944), which were both in the Japanese Imperial Navy, and the JDS Chōkai, a Kongō class guided missile destroyer currently in service in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Otis Boykin

Other notable inventions include a variable resistor used in guided missiles and small component thick-film resistors for computers.

Republic Aviation

Republic-Ford JB-2 (1944) pulse-jet pilotless guided missile, an American copy of the German V-1 flying bomb

SAM-N-2 Lark

Six of the Convair airframes were given to Raytheon to explore use of velocity-gated continuous wave doppler radar for guided missile target seekers, while most other United States investigators used range-gated pulse radar.

Trishul

INS Trishul, an Indian guided missile frigate bought from Russia