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Boeing AGM-86A Air Launched Cruise Missile prototype dropped from a B-52 in 1976
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R-40TD under a MiG-31
19:49 UTC
Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missile (SSM-1)
23:47 UTC
Technicians at work on a Mace B cruise missile in a hard-site launcher on Okinawa, April 1962. [1000x770]
11:14 UTC
Hisar-A+ Air defense missile with a speedy take off
19:23 UTC
M41 Walker Bulldog light tank hit by an inert Bullpup AGM during trials in 1971
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TOW missile launches and impacts during trials
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Buddy saw these on what he said was a military truck. Any idea as to what they are? (If they’re a missile at all or something else?)
There are a few Army and National Guard bases around the area. Also a Navy base about an hour or so away. Was wondering what these could be, if they’re actually missiles or just rockets, or some oddly looking objects that I can’t wrap my mind around as anything but missiles or rockets lol
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PrSM SRBM launched from a HiMARS system. The missile has a range of 499+ km, making it one of the first U.S. intermediate-ranged weapons after the withdrawl/dissolvation of the INF treaty.
It might get a Scram/Ramjet soon, extending the range to 1000 km+
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[2532 x 1470] Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) launching RGM-184A Naval Strike Missile (NSM) for the first time from the AB-class during the exercise RIMPAC 2024, July 18, 2024.
11:14 UTC
New Japanese Type 12 Stealth Cruise Missile without its booster
11:53 UTC
Evolution of AIM-9 Sidewinder
14:09 UTC
OpFires, Mk41 VLS, and U-SAPs
Picture of an OpFires missile launch during testing.
This is all just speculation, so please take it with a grain of salt.
DARPA's OpFires just so happens to be sort of based off of the AGM-183 ARRW, and is essentially a modified ground variant of it. Not too long ago in 2022, OpFires had an extremely successful testing run, smashing all of the tasks it was set to do.
Now, the reason I brung I this up, is because it has the potential to fit within the Mk41 VLS cells of Arleigh Burke Class destroyers, Constellation class cruisers, etc.. Now, you might look up the dimensions of the OpFires missile, and google (specifically AI) will provide you with dimensions that are WAAAY to big to fit into a Mk41 VLS cell. Which is completely wrong. The dimensions the AI is actually reffering to is that of the LRHW "Dark Eagle" missile. Its actual dimensions are still well within the realm of the original AGM-183 ARRW, and thus can possibly fit in Mk41 VLS cells.
Now, I personally believe the Navy is conmletely capable of incorporsting this weapon into its forces, considering what they are doing with CPS/IRCPS. Now the reason we don't know about if they are doing this or not is because either I am incredibly wrong about everything I just said (and if so, please correct me), they haven't got to making a program for it for reasons like OpFires not being fully operationally ready, or that it might be a U-SAP.
It doesn't seem too far fetched.
Now we get to some serious assuming and speculation. The Navy actually moght be pursuing this through a U-SAP (Unacknowledged Special Access Program), which essentially means it is a highly classified program where itteraly no one knows if it even exists or not other than the top-brass and people working on it; apposed to A-SAPs (Acknowledged SAPs) where we k ow of its existence and purpose, but basically nothing about the details. For example: the AIM 260 JATM.
Now as for why the Navy would keep this hypothetical program U-SAP is likely becaus eof the absolutely insane strategic value this would bring to the Navy. But it id also contradictory, because if such a program were known to the public, it would provide great detterence and worry to adversaries.
That last part is why I say this is dumb specualtion and is probably not true.
So, what do yall think?
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ROKN surface-to-air missile under development to replace SM-2 missiles
14:45 UTC
First launch of Japan's HGV Complex
22:49 UTC
AIM-9 Sidewinder launched by an F-104 Starfighter takes of a QF-80 target drone
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US Navy conducted the first end to end test of its Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic glide vehicle test during May, 2024.
20:11 UTC
Dongfeng Ballistic Missiles series of the PLA.
21:52 UTC
The LTV YBGM-110 prototype cruse missile, the losing competitor to the BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile. From https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/ltv-ybgm-110-cruise-missile-contender.9315/
03:57 UTC
An LGM-30F Minuteman II ICBM at the entrance to the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California. Photographed by me on April 7, 2019.
02:29 UTC
TSSAM cruise missile
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Martin MGM-1 Matador cruise missile shot down by a salvo of three Hughes AIM-4 Falcon air to air missiles during a 1950s test
16:09 UTC
Year 1947 - Post War - Incredible images of the first submarine equipped with the Republic JB-2 missile, a copy of the German V-1, you can see the cargo on board, storage, preparation and launch from the submarine while underway.
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