Navy had more success with the Regulus nuke cruise missile although that had an order of magnitude less range than the Snark.
1 posted on
04/14/2015 6:41:54 AM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I remember seeing these at Kadena AFB, Okinawa circa 59-61....memory is bad.
2 posted on
04/14/2015 6:46:55 AM PDT by
Gaffer
To: C19fan
Not totally useless. As a kid, I built airplane models and displayed them in my room. I had all Century aircraft and the X's. Had a Snark hung from the ceiling, painted a nice fire-engine red. First learned of JATO from this model.
So the Snark may have been "totally useless" as the article states, but to this kid, it was the coolest most inventive vehicle out there. The JATO just got to me for some reason. lol
To: C19fan
My Father worked for the NACA, now NASA, during WWll. He was working on the Snark then.
4 posted on
04/14/2015 6:47:40 AM PDT by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: C19fan
As a youngster, I built hundreds of the model airplanes and warships..I think I had about ten or so Snarks...no idea why.
5 posted on
04/14/2015 6:48:02 AM PDT by
ken5050
(If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
To: C19fan; JoeProBono; dfwgator
joeprobono; dfwgator and I would probably all agree that the Snark has been totally effective for us, personally.
6 posted on
04/14/2015 6:48:16 AM PDT by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: C19fan
Because of the extremely short range of the Snark (as in over the beach and into the ocean)I heard from some old Cape workers that the Air Force would get ragged on about the Snark infested waters off of Canaveral.
7 posted on
04/14/2015 6:49:07 AM PDT by
tbpiper
To: C19fan
I had a Snark model when I wuz a kid...
8 posted on
04/14/2015 6:49:29 AM PDT by
null and void
(He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
To: C19fan
The Snark, America’s First Strategic Cruise Missile Was Totally UselessThat's because it never blew anything up. It would just sit on the launch pad making catty and sarcastic comments about the enemy.
9 posted on
04/14/2015 6:49:35 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
To: C19fan
R&D on a new concept is NEVER useless.
12 posted on
04/14/2015 6:54:42 AM PDT by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: C19fan
OT, but is the author “Thomas Newdick” a nom de plume for John Wayne Bobbitt?
13 posted on
04/14/2015 6:56:36 AM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: C19fan
Don't worry. We had something MUCH better in the pipeline!
Fortunately, we never build the darn thing.
15 posted on
04/14/2015 6:59:54 AM PDT by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: C19fan
I am partial to Nikes, as I used to sneak up to the Nike Base in the Blue Hills and check it out when i was a kid.
I drove up there later as an adult, and the base was in ruins.
I was glad it was there during the Cuban Missile Crisis!
Now I wear Nike and play Bass!
17 posted on
04/14/2015 7:02:11 AM PDT by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: C19fan
Article says Snark was killed by the land-based, liquid fueled Atlas ICBM, but the Polaris submerged-launched ICBM Is what probably what did it in. The first submerged launch was July 1960. snark was ended by Kennedy in 1961.
My Dad was a key player in the Polaris guidance system development at GE.
19 posted on
04/14/2015 7:26:18 AM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: C19fan
The Snark WAS a boojam you see.
29 posted on
04/14/2015 9:34:23 AM PDT by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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