The MGM-29 Sergeant was an American short-range, solid fuel, surface-to-surface missile developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Activated by the US Army in 1962 to replace the MGM-5 Corporal it was deployed overseas by 1963, carrying the W52 nuclear warhead or alternatively one of high explosives. It was replaced by the MGM-52 Lance and the last US Army battalion was deactivated in 1977.
The Sergeant had a takeoff thrust of 200 kilonewtons (45,000 lbf), a takeoff weight of 4,530 kilograms (10,000 lb), a diameter of 790 millimetres (31 in), a length of 10.52 metres (34.5 ft) and a fin span of 1.80 metres (5 ft 11 in). The Sergeant missile had a minimum range of 25 miles (40 km), and a maximum range of 84 miles (135 km).
The Sergeant was used as the second stage of the Scout satellite launcher, and clusters of Sergeant-derived rockets were used in the second and third stages of the Jupiter-C sounding rocket and the Juno I launch vehicle.
Thiokol developed the Sergeant rocket motors -- and the Castor rocket stages derived from them -- at the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama.[1]
Operators
References
- ^ "Thiokol". Box Elder County, Utah. http://www.boxelder.org/tourism/visitor/thiokol/.
External links
- http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/sergeant.htm
- http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/systems/sergeant.html
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