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Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist. He was born in 1838 and died in 1916. The Mach number, representing the speed of sound in aeronautics, is named after him.
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The AGM-114 (hellfire) is an American laser-guided anti-tank missile. It can be carried by helicopters or ground forces. It has a flight speed of mach 1. 7 and a range of 5 miles.
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The AGM-84 (Harpoon) is an American guided anti-ship missile designed for deployment on surface ships, aircraft, submarines and ground-based installations. It has a range of 102 km and a flight speed of mach 0.75. The Harpoon Weapon System consists of the missile, launcher and a Command Launch System (CLS). The CLS can be a stand-alone system such as the Harpoon Shipboard (HSCLCS), Harpoon Aircraft (HACLCS), and the Encapsulated Harpoon Command and Launch Subsystems (EHCLS), or its functions can be integrated into an aircraft, ship or submarine fire control system. The warhead is a 500 pound, blast/fragmentation, high explosive unitary warhead. Delayed fusing is employed to permit warhead penetration of the ship's hull. When Harpoon is launched from ships, ground-based installations and submarines, the turbojet engine starts automatically after booster separation. For air- launched Harpoon, the booster is not used; the turbojet engine fires on command or automatically depending on speed and altitude of the launch
aircraft. Using the MGU and data from the radar altimeter, the missile flies at the optimum height for the prevailing sea state. The radar seeker is initialised at mid-course cruise altitude as it approaches the target. After acquisition, Harpoon immediately descends to the sea skimming altitude. Just prior to impact the missile executes a shallow pop-up or maintains sea skimming into the target.
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The Aspide is an Italian surface-to-air missile using a monopulse seeker with semi-active radar homing. It flies at a supersonic speed of 2.5 Mach and has a range of 14 kilometres. It is armed with a 33 kilogram fragmentation warhead.
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Atlas was the American inter-continental ballistic missile of the 1950's, phased out in 1965. There were 126 operational Atlas missiles at the time the programme was scrapped, these were liquid-propellant missiles with a top speed of between Mach 26 and Mach 27 and a range of 14500 km.
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The BAC Rapier is a British surface-to-air, low-level anti-aircraft missile first deployed in the 1960s after development in 1964 and first being fired in 1967. Rapier is armed with a 500 gram warhead and has a range of 7250 metres with a flight speed in excess of Mach 2. Rapier, as designed for the British services, consists of a two-wheeled towed trailer mounting four launchers and the automatic target detection and acquisition radar.
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Bomarc (USAF designation CIM-10) was an American long-range surface-to-air nuclear missile and the first long-range surface-to-air-missile put into service anywhere in the world. Development of Bomarc started in 1949 and the prototype was first fired in 1952. Bomarc was powered by two Marquards RJ43-MA-7 ramjet engines providing a cruising sped of Mach 2.8 and a range of 400 km. A problem with the original Bomarc was the firing time, just under two minutes. A later model, the CIM-10B Super Bomarc, first fired in 1959, was fitted with a solid-propellant integral booster and more powerful ramjets and had an increased range of 700 km and a reduced firing time to almost instantaneous.
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The Bristol Bloodhound (officially code-named Red Duster) later BAC Bloodhound, was the first British surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile to enter service and was used by the RAF during the later part of the 1950s. The Bristol Bloodhound was powered by Thor-type ramjets producing a flight speed in excess of mach 1 and a range of 80 km.
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The C801 Ying-ji (Eagle Strike) is a Chinese inertial cruise anti-ship missile first seen in 1984, with active radar homing to a range of 40 km at a sea-skimming flight speed of 0.9 Mach. They carry a 165 kg warhead.
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The Contraves Italiana Indigo was an Italian short-range surface-to-air land-based guided missile developed in 1966. The Contraves Italiana Indigo was armed with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead and had a top speed of Mach 2.5 and a range of 10 km to a ceiling of 6000 metres.
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