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X-10 Navajo Missile in Assembly
X-10 Navajo Missile in Assembly
SM-64 Navajo Rocket in Launch Gantry
X-10 Navajo Ready to Launch
X-10 Navajo Rocket Launch
Test Firing of X-10 Navajo Missile Prototype
Navaho G-26 Flight 3 Launch
Navaho G-26 Flight 3 Launch
X-10 Navaho Missile Transport
SM-64 Navaho Missile in Hangar
Navaho Trailer Transport
Navaho G-26 Flight 3 Failed Launch
Moving X-10 Navaho Rocket Plane Out of Hangar
X-10 Navajo Missile Prototype
Moving X-10 Navaho Missile Out of Hangar
Air-Launched Navaho Missile Cutaway View
North American RTV-A-3 NATIV Missile on Display Podium
North American RTV-A-3 NATIV Missile in Street Parade
Launched RTV-A-3 NATIV Missile Still in Gantry Tower
Base of RTV-A-3 NATIV Missile Launch Tower
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Wright Ramjet Engine for Navaho G-26
In October 1945, the Army Technical Services Command asked U.S. aeronautical corporations to design a guided missile. North American Aviation proposed the MX-770, the Navaho -- a 500-mile-range missile, which made many key technological breakthroughs. The X-10 Navaho test drone was the first turbojet-powered vehicle to reach Mach 2, and the first aircraft to fly a complete mission under inertial (computerized) guidance. Phase two of the nuclear Navaho development program was the G-26 drone missile (shown here), which would prove the vertical launch system. The G-26 required the development of the largest ramjet engines built, an auxiliary power unit to power the missile's electronics and hydraulics, and a more effective autonavigator unit, the N-6 or NAVAN (North American Vehicle Auto Navigation). The Navaho program was canceled in July 1957 when, after extensive testing at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Atlas ICBM was chosen over winged missile designs.
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