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The Main Part of the Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles presents 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 WacketHughes Brazo
Loral (Ford) HAVE DASH II
Air-to-Surface Missiles
NOTS HopiMinneapolis-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 WizardOerlikon/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 BombDayton 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 SwitchbladeRaytheon 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 Retrorocket4.5 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 Rockets4.5 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) PrivateCook 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-36Boeing 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.
Republic SD-3 SnooperGyrodyne QH-50 DASH
Republic SD-4 Swallow
Fairchild SD-5 Osprey
Republic Bikini
Lockheed D-21 Tagboard
Martin Marietta 845A
Lockheed Aequare
Teledyne Ryan Model 262 Manta Ray
Applied Physics Lab RPD-2 Paradel
Rockwell HiMAT
Naval Research Lab LODED
Applied Physics Lab Air-Exjam
Leading Systems Amber
General Atomics Gnat
Naval Research Lab Flyrt
Naval Research Lab Sender
Geneva Aerospace (Daedalus) Truck/Dakota
BAI XPV-1 Tern
Naval Research Lab Swallow
Accurate Automation LoFLYTE
Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) X-36
Naval Research Lab Eager
Boeing X-37 / X-40
Naval Research Lab MITE
Naval Research Lab Extender
Naval Research Lab Finder
Boeing (Frontier Systems) Maverick
Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk
Boeing X-45 / X-46
Navmar XPV-2 Mako
Mission Technologies Buster
Advanced Ceramics Research / ONR Silver Fox
Northrop Grumman X-47 Pegasus
Naval Research Lab Vantage (Dragon Warrior)
Boeing X-48
AFRL BATCAM
Boeing X-50 Dragonfly
Naval Research Lab Spider
AeroVironment SkyTote
Naval Research Lab Spider-Lion
Naval Research Lab CICADA
Raytheon Coyote
Lockheed Martin Stalker
Teledyne FLIR PD-100 Black Hornet
Northrop Grumman P-ISR / "RQ-180"
InstantEye Robotics InstantEye
Lockheed Martin X-56 MUTT
AeroVironment Blackwing
Teledyne FLIR R80D SkyRaider
AeroVironment JUMP 20
Survice/Malloy TRV-150C
Dynetics X-61 Gremlins
Performance Drone Works C100
Anduril Ghost-X
Kraus Hamdani K1000ULE
Aurora X-65 CRANE
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 M2NMSU 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 in Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles, Appendix 3
Martin VanguardABMA 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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