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Standard MR and
ER surface to air
guided missiles.
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Boeing's U.S. Air Force's
Air-Lunched Cruise Missile (ALCM) |
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Mace B is launched from its hard site during
a test at Cape Canaveral. |
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Among
the experimental weapons developed at the
Landing Force Development Center, Quantico,
Virginia, was this light antitank weapon (LaW),
which resembles a saved-off 3.5 rocket launcher
(bazooka) |
Technician
in Boeing's Seattle System Integration Laboratory
adjusts holding fixture for full-cale model
of US Air Force's Launched Cruise Missile
(ALCM) |
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Missile in Flight-- (SM-73). Picture was taken
during a recent test flight made at the Air
Force Missile Test Center, Cape Canaveral,
Fla. |
A
rigid polyurethane plastic foam "igloo"developed
by the Atlantic Research Corporation and the
Army Quartermaster Corps was used as low cost
and disposable field shelter for troops. |
The
first downing of enemy aircraft by sea-based
surface to air missile TALOS missile is recalled
by Navy Captain James D. Watkins (left) Radm
Keneth C. Walace. |
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The
main stage booster of the Jupiter C rocket
is prepared for checkout in the assembly hanger
of the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency's
laboratory.
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A
prototype of the Army's new atomic -capable
Pershing missile during a demonstration of
its easy air transportability at Rhine Main
Air Force Base, Germany. |
Weather
curtains for tear-resistant, waterproof Coverlight-N,
a neoprene - coated nylon supplied by the
Vulcan Division of Reeves Brothers, Inc.,
New York, protects the delicate instrumentation
required by the Martin Company for testing
and checking missiles such as this USAF Titan
shown at moment of lift off from Cape Canaveral,Florida. |
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Built 199 B ALBM, a two stage US Air force
research and development missile,was fired
from a B-47 jet bomber over the Atlantic Missile
Range near Cape Canaveral into the vicinity
of the earth -orbiting "Paddlewheel"
satellite, Explorer VI. |
New
Army Shillelagh--US Army soldier handles modern
Shillelagh, anti-armor and field fortification
missile that packs a far greater wallop than
the one carried by its fabled Irish namesake. |
This
is an artist's concept of the Shillelagh weapon
system developed for the US Army. |
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Improved
Tow
vehicle (ITV)
by E & S Division,
Emerson Electric Company
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A
Marine Infantryman prepares to fire a Cobra
wire-guided Anti Tank Missile. The Cobra is
guided to its target by manipulating a stick
on an electronic control box to which eight
missiles can be connected for firing in sequence. |
Rockwell
International Corporation Missile System Division's
Hellfire anti-armor missile system. |
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TOW missile launcher
designed to destroy
tanks and other hard
targets with a
hollow-charge warhead.
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Captive flight test
of the Pershing II Terminal guidance
system carried
in a pod of FJ-4 "Fury"
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A
Pershing II missile is launched from McHregor
Range on Fort Bliss, Texas, beginning an 88-mile
flight to a ground target on White Sands Missile
Range (WSMR), N.M. |
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