Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles (original) (raw)

The Main Part of the Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missilespresents concise information about all missiles and rockets, which have received a numerical designation in the DOD's joint Designation System for Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles since 27 June 1963.

Appendix 4 covers a selection of missiles, rockets, drones and other unmanned aerospace vehicles, which were operationally used, tested or only studied by the U.S. military services, but did never receive an official designation in any of the designation systems for missiles and UAVs. However, this appendix is not intended to describe all undesignated vehicles, which would be all but impossible. Instead it will primarly focus on operational missiles and UAVs, important test vehicles, and particularly interesting projects. This is no firm limitation, though, and in priniciple, every undesignated U.S. American unmanned military aerospace vehicle project might be included in this appendix.

Index

The vehicles are grouped by general categories, and listed in roughly chronological order within each group.

Air-to-Air Missiles

Convair Pye Wacket
Hughes Brazo
Loral (Ford) HAVE DASH II

Air-to-Surface Missiles

NOTS Hopi
Minneapolis-Honeywell Wagtail
Martin Marietta ASALM
Lockheed SENIOR PROM
Vought HVM
Lockheed HGV
Lockheed Martin LOCAAS
Rafael / Lockheed Martin Spike NLOS

Surface-to-Air Missiles

University of Michigan Wizard
Oerlikon/Contraves MX-1868
FABMDS
Martin Marietta Sprint
Ford SIAM
Lockheed ERIS
McDonnell Douglas HEDI
Lockheed Martin Patriot PAC-3
Lockheed Martin THAAD
Boeing GBI
Northrop Grumman KEI
Rafael Tamir / Raytheon SkyHunter
Raytheon Coyote Block 2

Surface-to-Surface Missiles

Curtiss/Sperry Flying Bomb
Dayton Wright/Kettering Liberty Eagle ("Bug")
General Motors A-1
Applied Physics Lab D-40 Cannonball
Vought SLAM (Pluto)
Lockheed Martin (Vought) MLRS Rockets (M26/M30/M31)
NAWC/DRS Spike
ONR/Titan Affordable Weapon
Netfires NLOS-LS (Raytheon PAM / Lockheed Martin LAM)
Lockheed Martin CKEM
Lockheed Martin PrSM
Lockheed Martin CPS / LRHW / Dark Eagle

Loitering Munitions

AeroVironment Switchblade
Raytheon Coyote
UVision Hero-120
Anduril ALTIUS
Teledyne FLIR Rogue 1

Gun-Launched Guided Projectiles

Martin Marietta Copperhead (155 mm Projectile, M712)
Raytheon ERGM (5 inch Projectile, MK 171)
Raytheon Excalibur (155 mm Projectile, M982)
Alliant Techsystems XM395 PGMM / APMI

Air-Launched Unguided Rockets

CalTech/Navy Retrorocket
4.5 inch HE Rocket M8
3.5 inch Rockets
SCAR
5 inch Rockets
NOTS Tiny Tim (11.75-Inch Rocket)
2.75 inch Rockets
NOTS Ram (6.5 inch Rocket)
NOTS BOAR (30.5 inch Rocket MK 1)
Textron (Avco) BLU-106/B BKEP
MBDA (Matra) BLU-107/B Durandal

Surface-Launched Unguided Rockets

7.2 inch Rockets
4.5 inch BBR Old Faithful
4.5 inch HE Rocket M16/M20/M32
5 inch HVSR / BOMROC
2.36 inch Anti-Tank Rocket M6 Bazooka
3.5 inch HEAT Rocket M28/M35 (Super Bazooka)
Bendix Loki
Convair Lobber
115 mm Chemical Rocket M55
NOTS RAT
Kongsberg Terne
Talley 66 mm HEAT Rocket M72 LAW
Lockheed Ping-Pong
66 mm Incendiary Rocket M74
345 mm HE Rocket M130 SLUFAE
Lockheed Martin (Vought) MLRS Rockets (M26/M30/M31)
Talley SMAW

Research/Test Missiles & Rockets

Note: High-altitude sounding rockets are covered in a separate section below.

JPL (GALCIT) Private
Cook Cherokee
Cook Skokie
Aerophysics Development HTV
Aeronutronics Farside
Cook Cree
NOTS NOTS-EV-1 Pilot (NOTSNIK)
WS-199 (Bold Orion, High Virgo, Alpha Draco)
NOTS NOTS-EV-2 Caleb
Naval Missile Center Crow
NASA Trailblazer 2
Atlantic Research Athena
Boeing HIBEX
LTV ALVRJ
Assault Breaker (T-16, T-22)
Space Data Sergeant-Hydac / Talos-Sergeant-Hydac
Lockheed HOE
LTV SRHIT/FLAGE
Lockheed Martin PLV
Boeing HyFly
USAF/DARPA Falcon Program
Lockheed Martin RATTLRS
Boeing X-51
Generation Orbit X-60 GOLauncher 1
ABL Space Systems X-63
Invocon X-64

Sounding Rockets

Note: Sounding rockets, which were used only by non-military organizations (NACA/NASA, universities, research agencies), are outside the scope of this website.

V-2 (A-4)
University of Michigan/NACA Nike-Deacon
Navy Rockair / Douglas Rockaire
Cooper Development Asp / Ascamp / Nike-Asp / Terrier-Asp
Cooper Development Loki-Wasp / Hasp
Atlantic Research Arcon
Aerojet General Aerobee 170/300
Aerolab Argo E-5 (Jason)
Aerolab Argo D-4 (Javelin)
University of Michigan Strongarm
Other _Honest John-Nike_-Boosted Rockets
USAF ARDC Jaguar
Aerojet General Astrobee
Rocket Power Phoenix
Atlantic Research Iris
Atlantic Research (Aerolab) Nike-Apache
Rocket Power Raven
Aerojet General / Space Data Nike-Iroquois
Thiokol/Sandia Tomahawk
Other _Nike_-Boosted Rockets
Bristol of Canada Black Brant
Miscellaneous _Castor_-Based Rockets
Orbital Sciences (Space Vector) Aries

Unmanned Military X-Planes

Note: This section groups all unmanned military vehicles, which had an X-series designation assigned after 1963 (older unmanned USAF X-Planes are covered in Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles, Appendix 1). The NASA-only X-33, X-34, X-38 and X-43 programs are outside the scope of this website.

Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) X-36
Boeing X-37 / X-40
X-41 CAV
Orbital Sciences USFE (X-42)
Boeing X-45 / X-46
Northrop Grumman X-47 Pegasus
Boeing X-48
Boeing X-50 Dragonfly
Boeing X-51
Lockheed Martin X-56 MUTT
X-58 → Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie
Generation Orbit X-60 GOLauncher 1
Dynetics X-61 Gremlins
ABL Space Systems X-63
Invocon X-64
Aurora X-65 CRANE
X-67 → General Atomics XQ-67 OBSS

Drones and UAVs

Note: Outside the scope of this website are UAVs which were funded and procured only by the private industry or non-military organizations. This includes privately-developed vehicles, which were only briefly evaluated by the military but not selected for further development and/or procurement.

Unmanned Lighter-Than-Air Vehicles

Balloon Reconnaissance Systems (WS-119L / WS-461L)
WS-124A Flying Cloud
Tethered Aerostats

Aerial Targets / Ballistic Missile Targets

Note: Drone conversions of manned aircraft are outside the scope of this website.

Anti-Aircraft Target Rocket M2
NMSU Physical Science Lab Pogo / Pogo-Hi
Radioplane RP-77D
Curtiss-Wright TDU-12/B Skydart
GAF Jindivik
Philco-Ford LOCAT
Orbital Sciences (Space Vector) Aries
Orbital Sciences Storm I / Storm II
Sandia STARS
Coleman Hera
Orbital Sciences Castor 4B
Boeing/Zvezda-Strela MA-31
Orbital Sciences SR19-SR19
Coleman SRALT / LRALT

Space Launch Vehicles

Note: Additional undesignated space launchers are covered inDirectory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles, Appendix 3

Martin Vanguard
ABMA Juno I (Jupiter C)

"Missile Scrapbook"

(A listing of some missile, rocket and UAV projects, which are mentioned by name in one or more of my sources, but which do not warrant a page of their own)

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Last Updated: 26 January 2024