AGM-69 SRAM

The Boeing AGM-69 SRAM ( Short Arranges Attack Missile ) is a Missile air-to-ground developed by the the United States and brought into service in the years 1970.

Description

Conceived by the company Boeing, the AGM-69 is intended to neutralize enemy defenses like radars, batteries of anti-aircraft missiles, etc According to the needs, it can use a ballistic trajectory or follow the ground at low altitude. He is guided by a system made up of a inertial Centrale, an altimetric radar and a computer. He has a first rocket motor for the phase of initial acceleration and the approach, then of a second who starts at short distance of the objective. The warhead is a nuclear load W69 of 200 kilotons.

The missile was brought into service in 1972 and withdrawn in 1990. More than 1200 specimens of the AGM-69A were built. An improved version AGM-69B was to be developed within the framework of the program of the B-1 Lancer, but finally never was born.

The capacity of carrying of the American bombers was the following one:

20 for the B-52 Stratofortress, including 8 out of compartment and 6 pennies each wing
6 for the FB-111A Aardvark, including 2 out of compartment and 2 pennies each wing
24 for B-1B Lancer

Characteristics

Length: 4,27m
Mass: 1.012 kg
Maximum speed: higher than Mach 2,8
Autonomy: 56 to 168 km

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