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The AAM-N-10 Eagle was a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Bendix Corporation for use by the United States Navy. Intended for carriage by the Douglas F6D Missileer fleet defense fighter, the Eagle program was cancelled before testing could begin, but the lessons learned were used in the development of the AIM-54 Phoenix missile.

AAM-N-10 Eagle
Type	Long-range Air-to-air missile
Place of origin	United States
Service history
Used by	United States Navy
Production history
Designed	1958
Manufacturer	Bendix Corporation
No. built	0
Specifications (projected)
Mass	650 lb (290 kg) without booster 1,284 lb (582 kg) with booster
Length	11 ft 7 in (3.53 m) without booster 16 ft 1.5 in (4.915 m) with booster
Diameter	14 in (360 mm) booster 16 in (410 mm)
Wingspan	2 ft 10 in (0.86 m) booster 4 ft 2.1 in (1.273 m) folding
Operational range	110 nmi (130 mi; 200 km) powered 160 nmi (180 mi; 300 km) aerodynamic
Flight ceiling	100,000 ft (30,000 m)
Maximum speed	Mach 4.5
Guidance system	inertial with radio correction midcourse active radar or home-on-jam terminal
References	Parsch 2003

Design and development

Development of the AAM-N-10 began in 1957 with the definition of the fleet defense fighter: a subsonic, long-endurance interceptor aircraft carrying a powerful radar set and very-long-range missiles, capable of shooting down enemy bombers at the greatest possible distance from the aircraft carriers they were attempting to attack. In 1958, Douglas Aircraft was contracted to develop the F6D-1 Missileer fighter, and the Bendix Corporation received a contract that December for the AAM-N-10 Eagle missile.[1]

Eagle was of conventional design for heavy air-to-air missiles of the time, with very low-aspect ratio, nearly delta wing fins of 2-foot-10-inch (0.86 m) span extending the length of the missile's 11-foot-7-inch (3.53 m) body, and a detachable booster stage to allow the missile to accelerate hard at launch before settling into a cruise configuration over the extended distance to the target. The airframe of the missile was subcontracted by Bendix to Grumman Aircraft;[1] Aerojet was subcontracted to build the AAM-N-10's rocket motors.[2] The booster would propel the Eagle to a speed of Mach 3.5; following ignition of the sustainer, the missile would slowly accelerate to a Mach 4.5 cruise speed.[3] A conventional high explosive warhead was standard, and Eagle was designed to be capable of carrying a W42 nuclear warhead.[1]

The Eagle utilized midcourse radio command guidance, with signals from the launch aircraft being transmitted to keep the missile on course as it flew an energy-efficient 'lofted' trajectory to the target area. As it neared the target, the AAM-N-10 would switch to active radar homing, its own onboard radar set, derived from the AN/DPN-53 radar carried by the CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missile,[3] which utilized a similar flight profile – steering the missile to its target.[1] Launch could be at distances of up to 160 nautical miles (180 mi; 300 km) from the target; the AN/APQ-81 radar designed for the Missileer was only capable of detecting targets at 120 nautical miles (140 mi; 220 km) range, however the launch aircraft could be cued to a target by an airborne early warning aircraft, launching its missiles to cruise to the target area, where they would use a secondary home-on-jam guidance system for terminal homing.[3]

During 1960, a Douglas A3D Skywarrior medium bomber was modified as a testbed for the APQ-81 and was intended to launch AAM-N-10s during the testing phase of the program; the modification, with an enlarged radome, led to the aircraft being nicknamed "Snoopy".[4] However, due to cost issues and concerns about the viability of the slow fleet-defense fighter concept, the Missileer program, including the Eagle, was cancelled in December 1961,[5] before any hardware had been built. Despite the cancellation, however, the design of the Eagle provided data that assisted the development of the AAM-N-11 (later AIM-54) Phoenix missile carried by the General Dynamics–Grumman F-111B and Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters.[1]

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[de] AAM-N-10 Eagle

Die AAM-N-10 Eagle war der Entwurf einer weitreichenden Luft-Luft-Rakete für die United States Navy, die für die Douglas F6D Missileer entworfen wurde.

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[ru] AAM-N-10 Eagle

Eagle ([ˈiːɡl̩] чит. «Игл», с англ. «орёл», войсковой индекс — AAM-N-10) — американская управляемая ракета класса «воздух—воздух» сверхбольшой дальности. Предназначалась для ведения воздушного боя против перспективных советских истребителей-бомбардировщиков третьего поколения с расстояния превышающего зону досягаемости их бортового вооружения. Была разработана корпорацией «Бендикс» совместно с корпорацией «Грумман» по заказу ВМС США. Согласно изначальной конструкторской идее, «Игл» должна была стать самой дальнобойной УРВВ из всех когда-либо существовавших[1] Для перехвата советских стратегических бомбардировщиков и ракетоносцев, ракету предполагалось снаряжать ядерной боевой частью[2]. Ракета вместе с системой управления ракетным вооружением и пусковым устройством входила в комплекс вооружения WS-404[3]. «Игл» относилась к так называемым «эксклюзивным» ракетам, поскольку проектировалась сугубо под интеграцию в систему управления ракетным вооружением палубного истребителя-перехватчика F6D Missileer, на внешней подвеске которого предполагалось разместить до шести таких ракет[4]. Отказ потенциального заказчика от закупок самолётов указанной модели в скором времени привёл к отказу от продолжения работы над их вооружением, что привело к сворачиванию проекта. Работы над созданием и испытанием ракеты велись в 1959—1961 гг.[5] Проект обошёлся американской казне в $53 млн.[5]

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