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Cannonball (missile)
The Cannonball Missile also known as the D-40 was designed by the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University under a United States Navy contract in the early 1950s. The missile originally started out as an anti-ship missile to be launched from submarines. In 1952 the US Army United States Army Ordnance Corps, Chief of Ordnance funded the project for development as an Anti-tank guided missile, anti-tank missile. Between 1953 and 1956, around 50 D-40 missiles were test fired.Weeks, John. ''Men Against Tanks.'' New York: Mason/Charter, 1975. Design The D-40 is a "spherically" shaped missile about in diameter and had a maximum range around . The D-40 was propelled by a solid-fueled rocket and stabilized using three pairs of "tangential rocket nozzles" and was guided originally by radio signals and later by signals sent down a wire trailing behind the missile. The first design, the "D-40A", weighed while the later versions "D-40B" and "D-40C" were around 150 lbs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D-40 Cannonball Guided Missile
D4, D.IV, d4 or variants may refer to: Science and medicine * 22-Dihydroergocalciferol, vitamin D4 * D4-isoprostane, a type of isoprostane * ATC code D04, ''Antipruritics, including antihistamines, anesthetics, etc.'', a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System * D04, Bowen's disease, Carcinoma in situ of skin ICD-10 code * Dopamine receptor D4, a human gene * Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane, called D4 Mathematics * Dihedral group of order 4, otherwise known as the Klein four-group * Dihedral group of order 8, the symmetry group of a regular 4-gon * D4 (root system), D4 (root system) Technology and computing * D4 (programming language), a programming language of the Dataphor system * D4 video connector, a type of analog video connector found on Japanese consumer electronics * D4 framing standard, a framing standard for traditional time-division multiplexing Aircraft * Albatros D.IV, a World War I experimental German fighter aircraft * Auster D.4, a 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
