AGM-86A/B Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM)

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The Boeing AGM-86 ALCM (AGM-86B and AGM-86C) is an American subsonic air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) built by Boeing Company and operated by the United States Air Force. The missiles were developed to increase the effectiveness and survivability of Boeing B-52H Stratofortress bombers. In combination, they dilute an enemy's forces and complicate defense of its territory.

Production of the initial 225 AGM-86B missiles began in fiscal year 1980 and production of a total 1,715 missiles was completed in October 1986. The air-launched cruise missile had become operational four years earlier, in December 1982. More than 100 launches have taken place since then, with a 90% approximate success rate. The missile's flight path is pre-programmed and it becomes totally autonomous after launch.

In June 1986 a limited number of AGM-86B missiles were converted to carry a high-explosive blast/fragmentation warhead and an internal GPS. They were redesignated as the AGM-86C CALCM. This modification also replaced the B model's terrain contour-matching guidance system (TERCOM) and integrated a GPS capability with the existing inertial navigation computer system.

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AGM-86A/B Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM)

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  • If a B model hit ...

    If a B model hit the pentagon, it wouldn't be there any more. If a C model hit the Pentagon, It'd probably scuff the building exterior. If a D model hit the Pentagon, It would have hit the top of the building versus the side.

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    Reporter is nutso - they found plenty enough remains of an aircraft including tail numbers and serialized components to know it was a commerical passenger aircraft in both locations. Besides the A model here was never put into production but a larger gray B model that you arent going to see terrorists getting their hands on, I guarantee you that. Besides you arent ground launching one that easy - has a jet engine that takes a bit to get up to speed unlike the Tomahawk with rocket booster.

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    That's some really old Beoing promo and test video they used here - the A model was never purchased, they went with the longer B model with extra fuel and payload capacity. I worked and taught (as a technical instructor) on the AGM-69A SRAM, AGM-86B/C ALCM and AGM-129 ACM until we closed Chanute AFB in IL in 1993 then worked SRAM on B-1 back on a working base in Kansas until I retired in 95.

    Wasnt that long ago all the info you posted about TERCOM and such was classified LOL.

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  • This is very ...

    This is very possibly what hit Shanksville and the Pentagon on 9/11

    Listen to Shanksville eyewitness Susan McElwain in her own words describing the craft she saw that day.
    Youtube:
    9 /11 - Shanksville: Eyewitness Susan McElwain

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