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An air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is a
An air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is a cruise missile
A cruise missile is a guided missile used against terrestrial or naval targets that remains in the atmosphere and flies the major portion of its flight path at approximately constant speed. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warh ...
that is launched from a military aircraft
A military aircraft is any Fixed-wing aircraft, fixed-wing or rotorcraft, rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type. Military aircraft can be either combat or non-combat:
* Combat aircraft are ...
. Current versions are typically standoff weapons which are used to attack predetermined land targets with conventional, nuclear
Nuclear may refer to:
Physics
Relating to the nucleus of the atom:
*Nuclear engineering
*Nuclear physics
*Nuclear power
*Nuclear reactor
*Nuclear weapon
*Nuclear medicine
*Radiation therapy
*Nuclear warfare
Mathematics
*Nuclear space
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or thermonuclear
Thermonuclear fusion is the process of atomic nuclei combining or “fusing” using high temperatures to drive them close enough together for this to become possible. There are two forms of thermonuclear fusion: ''uncontrolled'', in which the re ...
payloads.
Specific types of ALCMs (current, past and under development) include:
* AGM-28 Hound Dog (USA)
*AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER
The AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response) is an advanced stand off precision-guided, air-launched cruise missile produced by Boeing Defense, Space & Security for the United States Armed Forces and their allies. Devel ...
(USA)
*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. This missile was developed to increase the effectiveness and survivability of the Boeing B-52H Stratofortres ...
(USA)
* AGM-129 ACM (USA)
* AGM-158 JASSM (USA)
*AGM-158C LRASM
The AGM-158C LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) is a stealthy anti-ship cruise missile developed for the United States Air Force and United States Navy by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The LRASM was intended to pionee ...
(USA)
* Air-Sol Moyenne Portée ASMP (France)
*ASN4G (France)
*BrahMos
The BrahMos (also designated as PJ-10)BrahMos-NG (India)
* BrahMos-II (India/Russia)
* CJ-10 (China)
*
Delilah
Delilah ( ; , meaning "delicate";Gesenius's ''Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon'' ar, دليلة, Dalīlah; grc, label= Greek, Δαλιδά, Dalidá) is a woman mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. She is loved ...
(Israel)
* Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad) (Pakistan)
* Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile USA
* Ra'ad-II (Pakistan)
* Joint Strike Missile (Norway/USA)
*Kalibr
The 3M-54 Kalibr, (Калибр, caliber), also referred to it as 3M54-1 Kalibr, 3M14 Biryuza (Бирюза, turquoise), ( NATO reporting name SS-N-27 Sizzler and SS-N-30A) is a family of Russian cruise missiles developed by the Novator Design Bu ...
-A (Russia)
* KEPD 350 (Germany/Sweden)
* Kh-20 (USSR)
* Kh-32 (Russia)
* Kh-35 (Russia)
* Kh-55/Kh-555 (USSR/Russia)
* Kh-59 (USSR/Russia)
* Kh-61 (USSR/Russia)
* Kh-101/102 (Russia)
* KSR-5 (USSR)
* LRSO (Long Range Stand Off Weapon) (USA)
* MICLA-BR (Brazil)
*Perseus
In Greek mythology, Perseus ( /ˈpɜːrsiəs, -sjuːs/; Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer ...
(France/UK)
*Popeye
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* SOM (Turkey)
* Soumar (Iran)
* Storm Shadow (France/UK)
*
Ya-Ali
Yā Muhammad ( ar, يَا مُحَمَّد "O Muhammad") or "Yā Rasūl Allāh" ( ar, يَا رَسُولُ الله "O Messenger of God") are Arabic expressions referring to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Definition
The phrase means "O Muhammad ...
(Iran)
*3M-51 Alfa
The P-900 Alfa (or also P-900A Alfa) П-900 3М51 Альфа Alfa AFM-L, GRAU designation 3M51, is an anti-ship missile (with LACM capabilities) developed from SS-N-30 (3M14), P-800 Oniks and P-700 Granit.
The missile has a Granit type engine. ...
(Russia)
*3M22 Zircon
The 3M22 Zircon also spelled as 3M22 Tsirkon (russian: Циркон, NATO reporting name: SS-N-33) is a scramjet powered maneuvering anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile produced by Russia, for the Russian Navy which has launch platforms on friga ...
(Russia)
*10Kh
10Kh was the designation for the initial series of Soviet Union pulse jet engine powered air-launched cruise missiles, reverse engineered from the Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1) flying bomb, developed in the 1950s by OKB-52 under the leadership of Vladimi ...
(USSR)
* Wan Chien (Taiwan)
See also
*Air-launched ballistic missile
An air-launched ballistic missile or ALBM is a ballistic missile launched from an aircraft. An ALBM allows the launch aircraft to stand off at long distances from its target, keeping it well outside the range of defensive weapons like anti-aircr ...
*Air-to-surface missile
An air-to-surface missile (ASM) or air-to-ground missile (AGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft at targets on land or sea. There are also unpowered guided glide bombs not considered missiles. The two most common pro ...
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