SNARK THE FIRST INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE CRUISE MISSILE SM-62 51134
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- This film was made to promote the Northrop SM-62 Snark, an early-model intercontinental range ground-launched cruise missile that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead. The Snark was deployed by the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command from 1958 through 1961. It represented an important step in weapons technology during the Cold War. The Snark took its name from the author Lewis Carroll's character the "snark".
The Snark missile was developed to present a nuclear deterrent to the Soviet Union and other potential enemies at a time when Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were still in development. The Snark was the only surface-to-surface cruise missile with such a long range that was ever deployed by the U.S. Air Force. Following the deployment of ICBMs, the Snark was rendered obsolete, and it was removed from deployment in 1961.
The film begins at mark 0:30 as a missile is launched. At mark 0:54 it is revealed to be the Snark, the U.S. Air Force's first intercontinental ballistic missile. The bird's guidance system is automatic and cannot be jammed. At mark 01:25, the air forces are seen here in a meeting. At mark 1:45, designs of the aerodynamic aircraft is been worked upon. This design is required to meet the high range specifications. At mark 2:00, is the room where all ongoing activities are strictly classified. At mark 2:14, a simple semi-automatic system is seen and tested in a mark e-61 aircraft. At mark 2:22, a radar station is seen. This is where operations of the aircraft is monitored. At mark 2:30, b-29 is also seen and is guided automatically. At mark 2:45, a b-45 bomber is seen which shows increasing accuracy and valuable experience was gained. The research is ongoing. At mark 2:57, is a facility where all bomber simulations are carried out. Several equipment are constructed for the various tests as seen at mark 3:07. At mark 3:25 is the sm-62 intercontinental missile. At mark 3:35 is Mexico at 1962; the first test missiles are launched. At mark 3:57, the missiles were launched and flight tests are made. At mark 4:33 is an unmanned aircraft. Here missiles were recovered and re-launched. At mark 4:47, booster rocket development now made the launching of missiles from a stationary structure and in 1952, at mark 4:57, is Florida. Here, ground stations now follow he course of the missiles by radar. At mark 5:20, a missile test is seen. The flight testing of the sm-62 Snark could now begin as seen at mark 5:37. Sensing instruments are installed on the missile and other equipment as seen at mark 6:00, including communication systems. At mark 6:38, all personnel are to clear the missile area.
At mark 7:04 is a written guide. The countdown for launching is pronounced at mark 7:20, at it is launched at mark 7:29. Tests are been worked upon on the missile advancement and modern equipment are added to the design at mark 8:32, the missile is safely guided to flight and also landing.
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I worked at Northrop as a Project Flight Test Engineer 1951-1953. I rode in the back of a B-29 testing a prototype of the star tracking guidance system. The design relied on vacuum tube electronics. There were reliability issues. We tested a more advanced system in the North American B-45 Tornado. I rode in the nose monitoring the performance of the guidance system that still relied on vacuum tube electronics.
Although there were reliability issues, the performance was a remarkable achievement for the technology available at that time.
wow that's amazing! how classified was the program back in those days?
The program was secret. We landed at SAC bases that were Top Secret. After we landed we were under guard to keep us away from the SAC airplanes. B-47 pilots would visit us to see our out of date B-45.
Wow! I'm so glad I stumbled upon this video. I worked on the star tracking navigation system on the SR-71 to which the Snark paved the way. A similar navigation system was used on the U-2 which I had the pleasure of working on as a Northrop Field Engineer. I remember my boss telling me stories of his time working on the Snark program.
I appreciate how the video puts so much emphasis on how reliable the Snark is while the thing has such a demonstrably troubled history. No really, it works!
No mention of "snark infested waters" !
And not a single 'Snark-infested waters' joke
This is a CRUISE MISSILE!!! As far as I know, Atlas was the first ICBM.
Yes--the little-known (today, although it may come back into use) term "ICCM"--Inter-Continental Cruise Missile, sometimes shortened to "ICM"--was applied to the Snark. Since ballistic missiles "are their own calling cards," whose launch sites (and therefore origins) can easily be back-tracked in seconds with today's computer-backed radar and infrared tracking systems (on satellites as well as the ground), interest in ICCMs--spurred by the post-Snark cruise missile technology revolution--is growing around the world. Unlike today's "terrain-hugging," turbofan-powered, circuitous-path cruise missiles, the turbojet-powered Snark flew at high altitude, making it vulnerable to interceptors and surface-to-air missiles. A low-altitude cruising, modernized "Snark," powered by a quieter, more fuel-efficient turbofan engine and using today's advanced guidance technologies, would be a formidable and hard-to-detect ICCM.
@@j.jasonwentworth723 Ground Launched Cruise Missile(GLCM)
Atlas was the first American ballistic missile. Whether the Soviets had the true first isn't entirely known.
I'm guessing it's a one-way trip. Or does it fly itself back to its launching point. After it delivers its payload.
@@johnkern7075 The nose of the Snark would separate and fall in a ballistic trajectory, the body would be discarded after separation.
There was only one base which had these missiles. It was in Presque Isle, Maine. It went active during the Eisenhower administration and was shut down shortly after JFK became President. You can still see the some of the launch pads and missile buildings on Google satellite photos.
Yes--I even read somewhere that President Kennedy ordered the Presque Isle, Maine Snark squadron to be disbanded, and then had to repeat his order some weeks or months later, when he discovered--to his considerable annoyance--that the obsolete Snarks were *still* on alert. (If memory serves, his ordered withdrawal of the Jupiter IRBMs from Italy and Turkey also had to be repeated due to "institutional inertia" [rather similarly, the U.S. Navy officially ended its lighter-than-air operations in 1961, but a hard core of blimp-enthusiast officers and enlisted men kept the last ones flying--they were used for coastal long-range radar surveillance--into 1962].)
Watch out for the snark infested waters
Saying "Ballistic missile cruise missile" is like saying "Over and Out".
They're mutually exclusive.
A ballistic missile is not a cruise missile.
A cruise missile is not a ballistic missile.
Snark was NOT a ballistic missile, an more than a Tomahawk is. They're both cruise missiles. The term ballistic implies firing the missile to the top of a high arc and then letting gravity direct its fall to its target.
My understanding is that the jet engine was intended to fly the aircraft to a drop altitude, at which point the nose containing the warhead would separate and fall quickly towards the ground, ballistically. That would make it a ballistic missile.
Cool video
"All personnel clear the area"
Personnel: continue working in the area.
My Dad worked on this .
Super neat shot at 7:34. A huge tank drops and spirals right past the camera as if in an action movie.
That was one of the solid rocket boost motors.
Notice this Paperclip was an advanced Program still producing weapons today ,Duetchland Uber Alles! Just Joking*
What altitude did this cruise at on course to target? By 1958 I would think it would have to fly very high to not be a sitting duck.
"Strategic Air Command" gives the spec as being between 45,000 and 50,000 feet.
DOES ANYONE ELSE NOTICE ? The design is VERY similar to the German V-1 "buzz bomb" that terrorized London in WW2 !
Aside from its larger size, and engine mounted below instead of above the body - it looks VERY similar !
The Snark project began in 1946 and was definitely influenced by the German developments. The U.S. Army built its own version of the Buzz bomb called the "Loon". You can see films of it on our channel.
Good v1 missile
H stoff und Z stoff or Hydrogen liquid Frozen and Hydrogen Oxide or concentrated Peroxide was very explosive and causticc a simple spill resulted in explosions !
Why are you mentioning that here. The SNARK used a turbojet. Had nothing in common with the ME163 Comet. Dumbass.
Happy Birthday to Anton Albert Dreher ,sorry about the Beer top Pop on April 21st!
What happens when one runs into a thunderstorm?
George Albert Dreher and Anton Albert Dreher Came to America fro Germany in Project Paperclip under the US Airforce and made this country Great!!Like Trump Says!!
Not a ballistic missile at all. Cool video though. They had a lot of failures during development, with missiles crashing into the sea off the Florida coast. Thus the joke: Snark-infested waters.
@xc5647321 xc5647321 Indeed--the Snark left multiple "legacies" at the Cape. As well as the "Snark-infested waters" (named for the returnable and reusable Snark rounds that didn't make it back to the Cape--in 1956, one even ran away and impacted in Brazil!), the runway at Cape Canaveral where the landing skid-equipped development Snark rounds landed (as is shown late in the film) was--and still is--called the "skid strip," and it is still used today by aircraft bringing rocket stages and spacecraft to the Cape by air.
Don't be SNARKEY
Watching this propaganda film, one would be forgiven for believing that they actually worked which, of course, they didn't!