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principle to provide aerodynamic lift; following burnout of the first stage, the vehicle would coast for a short time before ignition of the second stage, burnout of the second stage was followed by the vehicle entering the glide phase of flight, which would be terminated by a dive upon the target.
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Minuteman III design without having to build new
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flight inside of an atmosphere. Although this was not put to immediate use, the tests provided valuable data that was used for later programs like the Boost Glide
Reentry Vehicle and the ASSET and PRIME programs. Better understanding of the hypersonic lift process also led to the
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Scientist Remembers
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718:Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles
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16:For the star Alpha Draconis, see
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339:Honest John battlefield missile
4139:Short-range ballistic missiles
766:. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press.
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23:Experimental ballistic missile
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209:100,000 feet (30,000 m)
42:The Alpha Draco test vehicle
720:. designation-systems.net.
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693:Brulle, Robert V. (2008).
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656:Encyclopedia Astronautica
303:theater ballistic missile
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59:Place of origin
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737:Yengst, William (2010).
132:46.1 feet (14.05 m)
4111:Unknown or not assigned
1213:United States Air Force
831:United States Air Force
604:"Launch Complexes 9-10"
581:Yengst 2010, pp. 38-39.
269:United States Air Force
240:), was an experimental
232:missile, also known as
201:240 miles (390 km)
140:31 inches (790 mm)
84:United States Air Force
745:] Reentry Vehicles
349:($ 54 million today).
333:to include a concrete
259:Design and development
148:7.1 feet (2.16 m)
4134:Experimental missiles
796:at Wikimedia Commons
448:Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar
273:Strategic Air Command
762:Yenne, Bill (2005).
679:Brulle 2008, p. 101.
641:Brulle 2008, p. 106.
632:Brulle 2008, p. 105.
839:Air-to-air missiles
593:Brulle 2008, p. 94.
524:Brulle 2008, p. 89.
455:Related development
321:Operational history
234:Weapons System 199D
1098:Undesignated types
907:1961–1963 sequence
846:1955–1961 sequence
567:Yenne 2005, p. 67.
473:Comparable weapons
246:McDonnell Aircraft
90:Production history
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