Gorgon (missile family)

The Gorgon was an aerial ram or air-to-air missile powered by a turbojet engine and equipped with radio controls and a homing device. The Gorgon, developed by the U.S. during World War II, was later expanded into a general program including turbojet, ramjet, pulsejet, and rocket power; straight wing, swept wing, and canard (tail first) air frames; and visual, television, heat-homing, and three types of radar guidance for use as air-to-air, air-to-surface and surface-to-surface guided missiles and as target drones. The final develoment of the series, the ASM-N-5 Gorgon V, was to be an unpowered chemical weapons dispenser.

References

• Parsch, Andreas (2005). "Martin ASM-N-5 Gorgon V". Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles Appendix 1: Early Missiles and Drones. designation-systems.net. http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/asm-n-5.html. Retrieved 2011-02-11. 
• U.S. Naval Aviation Chronology in World War II

External links

• "Gorgon IV Sets Records For Ramjets" , February 1949, Popular Sciences