"Mystery" Missile ID Please?

Started by sequoiaranger, January 06, 2011, 08:49:29 AM

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sequoiaranger

I have two of the missiles below in my "parts stash", and they seem "ideal" to use for a future whif. I know I have had these missiles since the mid-1960's. They were made by Monogram, and part of a US missile set. I looked up the set on Google, and could identify my mystery missile among the set, but the description/name was too blurry/faint to see on even the best example. I *THINK* it may be a "Dart" missile (but Googling "Dart Missile" didn't come up with anything useful). I *THINK* I  remember them on a small ground-launch bracket mount.

Can anyone help me identify this missile?

My mind is like a compost heap: both "fertile" and "rotten"!

Scooterman

#1
Dart is right.  Mid '50s ATGM project.  I guess the grandpappy of the TOW system.


Read here-
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/dart.htm

ChernayaAkula

Yup, that's a Dart. Seems to be missing a pair of forward wings, though. I remembered there was a pic of one in the Aviation Fact File book on the AH-1 Cobra, calling the Dart "a lesson on how NOT to design an ant-tank missile".  :lol:

CLICKY #1!
CLICKY #2!

Now, in whif world, this could look pretty decent as a UAV.
Cheers,
Moritz


Must, then, my projects bend to the iron yoke of a mechanical system? Is my soaring spirit to be chained down to the snail's pace of matter?

sequoiaranger

#3
BlackEagle and Scoot---Thanks! Yes, it looks like it is missing a pair of wings, but the lack of them is OK for what I want it for---actually a large aircraft-carried Air-to-Air missile like the German Rurhstahl X-4 (though that had four wings, too, and later developed as an AT missile). I like the fact that the pictures showed a more pointed nose than my examples (I had intended to do that to my missiles, but didn't know if that was the way they were--now I do!). My use will be as a Japanese stand-off AA missile under the wings of my twin-Shinden (whenever I get around to it).

Just goes to show how this forum helps "develop" whifs through knowledge and encouragement.

Thanks again!
My mind is like a compost heap: both "fertile" and "rotten"!