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Talos

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rocket and missile system
Surface-to-air
…and the rocket-boosted, ramjet-powered Navy Talos. Both used radar tracking and target acquisition and radio command guidance. The later Nike Hercules, also command-guided, had a range of 85 miles. After 1956 the Talos was supplemented by the Terrier, a radar-beam rider, and the Tartar, a semiactive radar homing missile. These…
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…and the rocket-boosted, ramjet-powered Navy Talos. Both used radar tracking and target acquisition and radio command guidance. The later Nike Hercules, also command-guided, had a range of 85 miles. After 1956 the Talos was supplemented by the Terrier, a radar-beam rider, and the Tartar, a semiactive radar homing missile. These…
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