SSM-N-8 Regulus

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SSM-N-8 Regulus
SSM-N-8 "Regulus I" display at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Type	Cruise missile
Place of origin	United States
Service history
In service	1955-64
Used by	United States Navy
Production history
Manufacturer	Chance Vought
Produced	March 1951
Specifications
Mass	13,685 pounds (6,207 kg)
Length	32 feet 2 inches (9.80 m)
Diameter	4 feet 8.5 inches (1.435 m)
Wingspan	21 feet (6.4 m) extended 9 feet 10.5 inches (3.010 m) folded
Warhead	3,000 pounds (1,400 kg) such as the W5 warhead or the W27 warhead
Engine	Allison J33-A-14 turbojet 4,600 lbf (20 kN) 2 × booster rockets 33,000 lbf (150 kN)
Operational range	500 nautical miles (926 km)
Maximum speed	Subsonic
Guidance system	radio-command by ground stations, aircraft, or ships along the flight path

The SSM-N-8A Regulus or the Regulus I was a United States Navy-developed ship-and-submarine-launched, nuclear-capable turbojet-powered second generation cruise missile, deployed from 1955 to 1964. Its development was an outgrowth of U.S. Navy tests conducted with the German V-1 missile at Naval Air Station Point Mugu in California.^[1] Its barrel-shaped fuselage resembled that of numerous fighter aircraft designs of the era, but without a cockpit. Test articles of the Regulus were equipped with landing gear and could take off and land like an airplane.^[2] When the missiles were deployed they were launched from a rail launcher, and equipped with a pair of Aerojet JATO bottles on the aft end of the fuselage.