The AQM-128 was a short-lived program undertaken by the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

for the development of a subscale

target drone A target drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle, generally remote controlled, usually used in the training of anti-aircraft crews. One of the earliest drones was the British DH.82 Queen Bee, a variant of the Tiger Moth trainer aircraft operational ...

, launched from aircraft and capable of supersonic speed.Grossnick 1997, p.671. The AQM-128 was intended to use pre-programmed guidance.Parsch 2002 The program for development of the new target drone was begun in 1983; in January 1984, the designation YAQM-128A was approved for the program. The program was cancelled in April that year before any designs were selected.Parsch 2002

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