air-launched cruise missile
Illustration — An AGM-86 air-launched cruise missile in flight (1980) An air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is a cruise missile that is launched from a military aircraft. Current versions are typically standoff weapons which are used to attack predetermined land and naval targets with conventional, nuclear or thermonuclear payloads.
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Illustration — An AGM-86 air-launched cruise missile in flight (1980) An air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is a cruise missile that is launched from a military aircraft. Current versions are typically standoff weapons which are used to attack predetermined land and naval targets with conventional, nuclear or thermonuclear payloads.
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Specific types of ALCMs (current, past and under development) include: • 3M-51 Alfa (Russia) • 10Kh (USSR) • AGM-28 Hound Dog (U.S.) • AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (U.S.) • AGM-86 ALCM (U.S.) • AGM-129 ACM (U.S.) • AGM-158 JASSM (U.S.) • AGM-158C LRASM (U.S.) • AGM-181 LRSO (U.S.) • Air-sol moyenne portée ASMP (France) • AKF-98 (China) • ASN4G (France) • BrahMos (India/Russia) • BrahMos-II (India/Russia) • CATS Hunter (India) • CJ-10 (China) • Delilah (Israel) • Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad) (Pakistan) • Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive Anti-Surface (U.S.) • Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (Australia/U.S.) • Joint Strike Missile (Norway/U.S.) • KaGeM V3 (Pakistan/Turkey) • KALCM Cheonryong (South Korea) • Kalibr-A (Russia) • Kh-20 (USSR) • Kh-22 (USSR/Russia) • Kh-26 (USSR) • Kh-32 (Russia) • Kh-35 (Russia) • Kh-55/Kh-555 (USSR/Russia) • Kh-59 (USSR/Russia) • Kh-61 (USSR/Russia) • Kh-69 (Russia) • Kh-101/102 (Russia) • MICLA-BR (Brazil) • Perseus (France/UK) • Popeye (Israel) • Ra'ad-II (Pakistan) • Taimur (missile) (Pakistan) • Taurus KEPD 350 (Germany/Sweden) • Saber (UAE) • Sea Breaker (Israel) • SOM (Turkey) • Storm Shadow/SCALP EG (France/UK) • Wan Chien (Taiwan) • Wind Demon (Israel) • YJ-12 (China)
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- 1.Cruise-Missile. duden.de.
- 2.Cruisemissile. Lexikon.
- 3.Wolf Oschlies. Würgende und wirkende Wörter – Deutschsprechen in der DDR. 1989. 3-921226-34-1.
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- 8.Nirbhay: India's first indigenously developed long range sub-sonic cruise missile. defencenews.in, abgerufen am 7. Oktober 2015 (englisch)
- 9.M. Birkholz: Fallbeispiel Marschflugkörper, in: Infodienst Wissenschaft und Frieden, Heft 3, 1987.
- 10.Putin prahlt mit Superwaffen. Tages-Anzeiger, 1. März 2018.
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