Hopi ( [ˈhəʊpɪ] cheat. " Hopey ", after the name of the North American Indian tribe of the same name , was not assigned an index) - an American medium-range unguided rocket with a thermonuclear warhead . Designed to equip the aircraft carrier-based aircraft . It was developed in the second half of the 1950s. The test station of the armament of the fleet of the US Navy’s Main Armament Directorate in China Lake and Iniokern, California [1] [2] . Work on the project was terminated on December 15, 1958 [3] .
| Hopi | |
|---|---|
 rocket on the suspension assembly under the fuselage of the deck attack aircraft AD-5N Skyraider | |
| Type of | unguided aircraft rocket |
| A country |  USA |
| Service history | |
| Years of operation | not entered service |
| In service |  US Navy (potentially) |
| Production history | |
| Manufacturer | Naval Ordnance Test Station |
Content
Background
The Hopi missile was one of the elements of the US Navy's comprehensive rearmament program, which included both unguided aircraft rockets and guided aircraft of various classes, anti-submarine missiles , research missiles and samples of conventional naval artillery weapons of the fleet [4] [5] .
History
- Development
Hopi was a further development of NAR BOAR , also developed at China Lake. The main structural differences from the source were the increased mass and range, the changed aerodynamic characteristics [6] . The W50 thermonuclear warhead, identical to that used on anti-aircraft guided missiles of the Nike Zeus anti-missile defense complex [3], was designed for missile equipment.
- Tests
Rocket tests were conducted in 1958. Already in June 1958 Missiles and Rockets published an authoritative publication in the field of rocket science, in which, with reference to informed sources in the US Navy, it was reported that the rocket had already gone beyond the stage of research and development [4] . Further work on the project was discontinued in December of the same year and no longer resumed [6] .
Performance characteristics
- Sources of information: [3] [6]
- General information
- The aircraft carrier - North American FJ-4 Fury , Douglas AD Skyraider , Douglas A3D Skywarrior , Douglas A4D Skyhawk and analogues
- Categories of targets hit - stationary ground objects
- Aerodynamic characteristics
- Aerodynamic layout is normal
- Warhead
- Type of warhead - thermonuclear , W50
- Warhead power - 60-400 kt
- Type of safety actuator - instant action, actuation on contact
- Propulsion system
- Type of remote control - solid propellant
Notes
- ↑ Jacobs, Horace ; Whitney, Eunice Engelke . Missile and Space Projects Guide 1962 . - NY: Springer, 1962. - p. 80 - 235 p.
- ↑ 34th Annual Directory of Aircraft, Missiles and Satellites . // Western Aerospace : Missiles & Space Magazine. - Los Angeles, CA: Western Aviation Magazine, April 1962. - Vol. 42 - No. 4 - p. 76.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Polmar, Norman . The US Nuclear Arsenal: A 1945 . - Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. - P. 57, 227-274 p. - ISBN 978-1-55750-681-8 .
- ↑ 1 2 Bergaust, Erik . US Pushing Big Family of New Missiles . // Missiles and Rockets . - June 1958. - Vol. 3 - No. 7 - P. 39.
- ↑ US Navy — Missiles of the Future: Hopi . // Missiles and Rockets' Second Annual Guided Missile Encyclopedia 1958. - July 28, 1958. - Vol. 4 - No. 4 - P. 141.
- ↑ 1 2 3 NOTS Hopi . (electronic resource) / Designation Systems .