The Gorgon was an air-to-air missile powered by a turbojet engine and equipped with radio controls and a homing device. It was developed by the U.S. during World War II, was later expanded into a more general program including turbojet, ramjet, pulsejet, and rocket power. Straight wing, swept wing, and canard (tail first) air frames were investigated and visual, television, heat-homing, and three types of radar guidance were looked at for use as possible air-to-air, air-to-surface and surface-to-surface guided missiles and as target drones.
Attributes | Values |
---|
rdf:type
| |
rdfs:label
| |
rdfs:comment
| - The Gorgon was an air-to-air missile powered by a turbojet engine and equipped with radio controls and a homing device. It was developed by the U.S. during World War II, was later expanded into a more general program including turbojet, ramjet, pulsejet, and rocket power. Straight wing, swept wing, and canard (tail first) air frames were investigated and visual, television, heat-homing, and three types of radar guidance were looked at for use as possible air-to-air, air-to-surface and surface-to-surface guided missiles and as target drones.
|
sameAs
| |
Length
| |
dcterms:subject
| |
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
| |
Range
| |
Origin
| |
Name
| |
Type
| - missile / reconnaissance drone / target drone
|
Caption
| - A PTV-N-2 Gorgon IV missile on a Northrop P-61A mother-ship
|
is missile
| |
Weight
| |
Wingspan
| |
Ceiling
| |
Title
| - Articles and topics related to the Gorgon missiles
|
State
| |
Engine
| - PTV-N-2 - Marquardt XRJ30-MA ramjet
|
production date
| |
design date
| |
Designer
| |
abstract
| - The Gorgon was an air-to-air missile powered by a turbojet engine and equipped with radio controls and a homing device. It was developed by the U.S. during World War II, was later expanded into a more general program including turbojet, ramjet, pulsejet, and rocket power. Straight wing, swept wing, and canard (tail first) air frames were investigated and visual, television, heat-homing, and three types of radar guidance were looked at for use as possible air-to-air, air-to-surface and surface-to-surface guided missiles and as target drones. The final development of the series, the ASM-N-5 Gorgon V, was to be an unpowered chemical weapons dispenser.
|