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ADM-20 Quail

Index ADM-20 Quail

The McDonnell ADM-20 Quail was a subsonic, jet powered, air-launched decoy cruise missile built by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. [1]

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  1. 105 relations: ADM-141 TALD, ADM-160 MALD, Aerospace Museum of California, AGM-69 SRAM, AGM-86 ALCM, Air launch, Air-launched cruise missile, Alabama, Altitude, Anti-aircraft warfare, Arizona, Autopilot, Barksdale Air Force Base, Barksdale Global Power Museum, Birmingham, Alabama, Boeing, Boeing B-47 Stratojet, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Bomb bay, Bomber, Bossier City, Louisiana, California, Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Chaff (countermeasure), Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, CIM-10 Bomarc, Contract, Convair B-36 Peacemaker, Corner reflector, Cruise missile, Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, Delta wing, Eglin Air Force Base, Ellsworth Air Force Base, Fiberglass, Florida, Fuselage, Galveston, Texas, General Electric, General Electric J85, Georgia (U.S. state), Gwinn, Michigan, Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill Air Force Base, Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Holloman Air Force Base, Jet engine, K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, ... Expand index (55 more) »

  2. 1950s United States special-purpose aircraft
  3. Cold War weapons of the United States
  4. Cruise missiles of the Cold War
  5. Cruise missiles of the United States
  6. Decoy missiles of the United States
  7. McDonnell aircraft

ADM-141 TALD

The ADM-141A/B TALD was an American decoy missile originally built by Brunswick Corporation for the United States Air Force and the Israeli Air Force. ADM-20 Quail and ADM-141 TALD are decoy missiles of the United States.

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ADM-160 MALD

The ADM-160 MALD (Miniature Air-Launched Decoy) is an air-launched, expendable decoy missile developed by the United States. ADM-20 Quail and ADM-160 MALD are decoy missiles of the United States.

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Aerospace Museum of California

The Aerospace Museum of California is a private non-profit aviation museum located in North Highlands, California, outside of Sacramento, California, on the grounds of the former McClellan Air Force Base.

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AGM-69 SRAM

The Boeing AGM-69 SRAM (Short-Range Attack Missile) was a nuclear air-to-surface missile.

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AGM-86 ALCM

The AGM-86 ALCM is an American subsonic air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) built by Boeing and operated by the United States Air Force. ADM-20 Quail and AGM-86 ALCM are cruise missiles of the Cold War.

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Air launch

Air launching is the practice of releasing a rocket, missile, parasite aircraft or other aircraft payload from a mother ship or launch aircraft.

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Air-launched cruise missile

An air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is a cruise missile that is launched from a military aircraft.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Altitude

Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object.

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Anti-aircraft warfare

Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Autopilot

An autopilot is a system used to control the path of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator.

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Barksdale Air Force Base

Barksdale Air Force Base (Barksdale AFB) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, in northwest Louisiana.

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Barksdale Global Power Museum

The Barksdale Global Power Museum (formerly, the 8th Air Force Museum) is an aviation museum run by the United States Air Force on Barksdale Air Force Base near Bossier City, Louisiana.

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Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is a city in the north central region of Alabama.

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Boeing

The Boeing Company (or simply Boeing) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.

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Boeing B-47 Stratojet

The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft.

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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.

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Bomb bay

The bomb bay or weapons bay on some military aircraft is a compartment to carry bombs, usually in the aircraft's fuselage, with "bomb bay doors" which open at the bottom.

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Bomber

A bomber is a military combat aircraft that utilizes air-to-ground weaponry to drop bombs, launch torpedoes, or deploy air-launched cruise missiles.

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Bossier City, Louisiana

Bossier City is a city in Bossier Parish in the northwestern region of the state of Louisiana in the United States.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum

The Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum (formerly the Air Force Space and Missile Museum) is located at Launch Complex 26 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.

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Chaff (countermeasure)

Chaff, originally called Window or Düppel, is a radar countermeasure involving the dispersal of thin strips of aluminium, metallized glass fiber, or plastic.

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Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force

The chief of staff of the Air Force (acronym: CSAF, or AF/CC) is the service chief of the United States Air Force.

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CIM-10 Bomarc

The Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc ("Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center") (IM-99 Weapon System prior to September 1962) was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America.

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Contract

A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties.

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Convair B-36 Peacemaker

The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" is a strategic bomber that was built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959.

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Corner reflector

A corner reflector is a retroreflector consisting of three mutually perpendicular, intersecting flat surfaces, which reflects waves directly towards the source, but translated.

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Cruise missile

A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided vehicle that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path and whose primary mission is to place an ordnance or special payload on a target.

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Davis–Monthan Air Force Base

Davis–Monthan Air Force Base (DM AFB) is a United States Air Force base southeast of downtown Tucson, Arizona.

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Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is a city in Montgomery and Greene counties and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States.

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Delta wing

A delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a triangle.

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Eglin Air Force Base

Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in the western Florida Panhandle, located about southwest of Valparaiso in Okaloosa County.

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Ellsworth Air Force Base

Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located about northeast of Rapid City, South Dakota, just north of the town of Box Elder.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Fuselage

The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.

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Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.

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General Electric J85

The General Electric J85 is a small single-shaft turbojet engine.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Gwinn, Michigan

Gwinn is an unincorporated community in Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Hill Aerospace Museum

Hill Aerospace Museum is a military aviation museum located at Hill Air Force Base in Roy, Utah.

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Hill Air Force Base

Hill Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force (USAF) base located in Davis County, Utah, just south of the city of Ogden, and bordering the Cities of Layton, Clearfield, Riverdale, Roy, and Sunset with its largest border immediately adjacent to Clearfield and Layton.

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Historic Aviation Memorial Museum

The Historic Aviation Memorial Museum is an aviation museum located at the Tyler Pounds Regional Airport in Tyler, Texas.

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Holloman Air Force Base

Holloman Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base established in 1942 located six miles (10 km) southwest of the central business district of Alamogordo, which is the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States.

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Jet engine

A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion.

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K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base

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List of missiles

Below is a list of missiles, sorted alphabetically into large categories and subcategories by name and purpose.

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Lists of military aircraft of the United States

Lists of military aircraft of the United States cover current and former military aircraft of the United States Armed Forces.

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Lone Star Flight Museum

The Lone Star Flight Museum, located in Houston, Texas, is an aerospace museum that displays more than 24 historically significant aircraft, and many artifacts related to the history of flight.

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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Mach number

The Mach number (M or Ma), often only Mach, is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.

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McClellan Air Force Base

McClellan Air Force Base (1935–2001) is a former United States Air Force base located in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County, northeast of Sacramento, California.

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McDonnell Aircraft Corporation

The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Military dummy

Dummies and decoys are fake military equipment that are intended to deceive the enemy.

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Museum of Aviation (Warner Robins)

The Museum of Aviation is the second-largest aerospace museum of the United States Air Force.

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National Museum of the United States Air Force

The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, northeast of Dayton, Ohio.

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A navigator is the person on board a ship or aircraft responsible for its navigation.

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Northrop AQM-35

The AQM-35 was a supersonic target drone produced by the Northrop Corporation. ADM-20 Quail and Northrop AQM-35 are 1950s United States special-purpose aircraft and single-engined jet aircraft.

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Northrop BQM-74 Chukar

The BQM-74 Chukar is a series of aerial target drones produced by Northrop. ADM-20 Quail and Northrop BQM-74 Chukar are decoy missiles of the United States and single-engined jet aircraft.

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Oakland Aviation Museum

Oakland Aviation Museum, formerly called Western Aerospace Museum, was founded in 1981 as a non-profit organization operating an aviation museum located at North Field of Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City.

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Pima Air & Space Museum

The Pima Air & Space Museum is an aerospace museum in Tucson, Arizona, US.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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Radar cross section

Radar cross-section (RCS), denoted σ, also called radar signature, is a measure of how detectable an object is by radar.

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Rapid City, South Dakota

Rapid City is a city in South Dakota, United States, and the county seat of Pennington County.

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Rate integrating gyroscope

A Rate integrating gyroscope is a rate gyro with a built in integrator.

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Repeater

In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it.

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Robins Air Force Base

Robins Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States.

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Rocket

A rocket (from bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air.

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Sacramento, California

() is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Simulation

A simulation is an imitative representation of a process or system that could exist in the real world.

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Slipstream

A slipstream is a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid (typically air or water) is moving at velocities comparable to that of the moving object, relative to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving.

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South Dakota

South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.

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South Dakota Air and Space Museum

The South Dakota Air and Space Museum is an aviation museum located in Box Elder, South Dakota, just outside the main gate of Ellsworth AFB.

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Southern Museum of Flight

The Southern Museum of Flight is a civilian aviation museum Birmingham, Alabama.

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Spokane, Washington

Spokane is the most populous city in and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States.

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Squadron (aviation)

A squadron in an air force, or naval or army aviation service, is a unit comprising a number of military aircraft and their aircrews, usually of the same type, typically with 12 to 24 aircraft, sometimes divided into three or four flights, depending on aircraft type and air force.

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Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile components of the United States military's strategic nuclear forces from 1946 to 1992.

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Strategic bomber

A strategic bomber is a medium- to long-range penetration bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy's capacity to wage war.

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Subsonic aircraft

A subsonic aircraft is an aircraft with a maximum speed less than the speed of sound (Mach 1).

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Supersonic speed

Supersonic speed is the speed of an object that exceeds the speed of sound (Mach 1).

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Tailplane

A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabilizer, is a small lifting surface located on the tail (empennage) behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing aircraft as well as other non-fixed-wing aircraft such as helicopters and gyroplanes.

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Target drone

A target drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle, generally remote controlled, usually used in the training of anti-aircraft crews.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Thrust

Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law.

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Thrust-to-weight ratio

Thrust-to-weight ratio is a dimensionless ratio of thrust to weight of a rocket, jet engine, propeller engine, or a vehicle propelled by such an engine that is an indicator of the performance of the engine or vehicle.

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TRW Inc.

TRW Inc. was an American corporation involved in a variety of businesses, mainly aerospace, electronics, automotive, and credit reporting.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson (Cuk Ṣon; Tucsón) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.

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Tyler, Texas

Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, United States.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Vertical stabilizer

A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft.

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Warner Robins, Georgia

Warner Robins (WRB; typically) is a city in Houston and Peach counties in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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White Sands Missile Range

White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico.

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Wing (military unit)

In military aviation, a wing is a unit of command.

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio, in Greene and Montgomery counties.

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XGAM-71 Buck Duck

The Convair XGAM-71 Buck Duck was an air-launched decoy missile that was developed by Convair in the early 1950s. ADM-20 Quail and XGAM-71 Buck Duck are 1950s United States special-purpose aircraft, decoy missiles of the United States and unmanned military aircraft of the United States.

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XSM-73 Goose

The Fairchild SM-73 (originally Bull Goose) was a planned sub-sonic, jet-powered, long-range, ground-launched decoy cruise missile. ADM-20 Quail and XSM-73 Goose are Cold War weapons of the United States, cruise missiles of the Cold War, cruise missiles of the United States and decoy missiles of the United States.

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XSM-74

The Convair XSM-74 was a subsonic, jet-powered, ground-launched decoy cruise missile. ADM-20 Quail and XSM-74 are 1950s United States special-purpose aircraft, cruise missiles of the Cold War, cruise missiles of the United States and decoy missiles of the United States.

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See also

1950s United States special-purpose aircraft

Cold War weapons of the United States

Cruise missiles of the Cold War

Cruise missiles of the United States

Decoy missiles of the United States

McDonnell aircraft

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-20_Quail

Also known as ADM-20, ADM-20C Quail, GAM-72, GAM-72 Quail, McDonnell ADM-20 Quail, Quail (missile), Quail (rocket), XGAM-72, XGAM-72 Quail.

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