Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

SAM-N-2 Lark

Index SAM-N-2 Lark

The Lark project was a high-priority, solid-fuel boosted, liquid-fueled rocket surface-to-air missile developed by the United States Navy to meet the kamikaze threat. [1]

29 relations: Active radar homing, AIM-7 Sparrow, Air-to-air missile, Beam riding, Booster (rocketry), Bureau of Aeronautics, Bureau of Ordnance, Continuous-wave radar, Convair, Doppler radar, Fairchild Aircraft, Frederic M. Scherer, Harvard Business School, Kamikaze, MGM-18 Lacrosse, Naval Air Station Point Mugu, Operation Bumblebee, Proximity fuze, Radar, Raytheon, RIM-2 Terrier, Semi-active radar homing, Surface-to-air missile, Surface-to-surface missile, United States Air Force, United States Army, United States Navy, USS Norton Sound (AVM-1), Whiz Kids (Department of Defense).

Active radar homing

Active radar homing (ARH) is a missile guidance method in which a missile contains a radar transceiver (in contrast to semi-active radar homing, which uses only a receiver) and the electronics necessary for it to find and track its target autonomously.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Active radar homing · See more »

AIM-7 Sparrow

The AIM-7 Sparrow is an American, medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, as well as other various air forces and navies.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and AIM-7 Sparrow · See more »

Air-to-air missile

Python family of AAM for comparisons, Python-5 (displayed lower-front) and Shafrir-1 (upper-back) An air-to-air missile (AAM) is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Air-to-air missile · See more »

Beam riding

Beam-riding, also known as Line-Of-Sight Beam Riding (LOSBR) or beam guidance, is a technique of directing a missile to its target by means of radar or a laser beam.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Beam riding · See more »

Booster (rocketry)

A booster rocket (or engine) is either the first stage of a multistage launch vehicle, or else a shorter-burning rocket used in parallel with longer-burning sustainer rockets to augment the space vehicle's takeoff thrust and payload capability.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Booster (rocketry) · See more »

Bureau of Aeronautics

The Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) was the U.S. Navy's material-support organization for naval aviation from 1921 to 1959.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Bureau of Aeronautics · See more »

Bureau of Ordnance

The Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) was the U.S. Navy's organization responsible for the procurement, storage, and deployment of all naval weapons, between the years 1862 and 1959.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Bureau of Ordnance · See more »

Continuous-wave radar

Continuous-wave radar is a type of radar system where a known stable frequency continuous wave radio energy is transmitted and then received from any reflecting objects.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Continuous-wave radar · See more »

Convair

Convair was an American aircraft manufacturing company which later expanded into rockets and spacecraft.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Convair · See more »

Doppler radar

A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that uses the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Doppler radar · See more »

Fairchild Aircraft

Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Fairchild Aircraft · See more »

Frederic M. Scherer

Frederic Michael Scherer (born 1932 in Ottawa, Illinois) is an American economist and expert on industrial organization.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Frederic M. Scherer · See more »

Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Harvard Business School · See more »

Kamikaze

, officially, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than possible with conventional air attacks.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Kamikaze · See more »

MGM-18 Lacrosse

The MGM-18 Lacrosse was a short-ranged tactical ballistic weapon intended for close support of ground troops.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and MGM-18 Lacrosse · See more »

Naval Air Station Point Mugu

Naval Air Station Point Mugu is a former United States Navy air station that operated from 1942 to 2000 in California.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Naval Air Station Point Mugu · See more »

Operation Bumblebee

Operation Bumblebee was a US Navy effort to develop surface to air missiles (SAMs) to provide a mid-range layer of anti-aircraft defence, between anti-aircraft guns in the short range and fighter aircraft operating at long range.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Operation Bumblebee · See more »

Proximity fuze

A proximity fuze is a fuze that detonates an explosive device automatically when the distance to the target becomes smaller than a predetermined value.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Proximity fuze · See more »

Radar

Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Radar · See more »

Raytheon

The Raytheon Company is a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Raytheon · See more »

RIM-2 Terrier

The Convair RIM-2 Terrier was a two-stage medium-range naval surface-to-air missile (SAM), and was among the earliest surface-to-air missiles to equip United States Navy ships.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and RIM-2 Terrier · See more »

Semi-active radar homing

Semi-active radar homing (SARH) is a common type of missile guidance system, perhaps the most common type for longer-range air-to-air and surface-to-air missile systems.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Semi-active radar homing · See more »

Surface-to-air missile

A surface-to-air missile (SAM, pronunced), or ground-to-air missile (GTAM, pronounced), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other missiles.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Surface-to-air missile · See more »

Surface-to-surface missile

A surface-to-surface missile (SSM) or ground-to-ground missile (GGM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea and strike targets on land or at sea.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Surface-to-surface missile · See more »

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and United States Air Force · See more »

United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and United States Army · See more »

United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and United States Navy · See more »

USS Norton Sound (AVM-1)

USS Norton Sound (AV-11/AVM-1) was originally built as a by Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and USS Norton Sound (AVM-1) · See more »

Whiz Kids (Department of Defense)

Whiz Kids was a name given to a group of experts from RAND Corporation with which Robert McNamara surrounded himself in order to turn around the management of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in the 1960s.

New!!: SAM-N-2 Lark and Whiz Kids (Department of Defense) · See more »

Redirects here:

Lark (missile), Lark Missile, RV-A-22 Lark, SAM-N-4 Lark.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM-N-2_Lark

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »