Navaho

The second postwar U.S. cruise missile effort was the Navaho, an intercontinental supersonic design. Unlike earlier efforts, which were extrapolated from V-1 engineering, the Navaho was based on the V-2; the basic V-2 structure was fitted with new control surfaces, and the rocket engine…

…the early 1950s to the Navaho cruise missile. (A cruise missile flies like an unpiloted airplane to its target, rather than following the ballistic trajectory of an IRBM.) This program was short-lived, but the rocket engine developed for Navaho, which itself was derived from the V-2 engine, was in turn…