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style="padding-right:1em">Manufacturer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="McDonnell Aircraft">McDonnell Aircraft</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Produced</th><td class="infobox-data">1944-1947</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> built</th><td class="infobox-data">200</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Specifications</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Mass</th><td class="infobox-data">1,500 lb (680 kg)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">10 ft 1 in (3.07 m)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Wingspan</th><td class="infobox-data">8 ft 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href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> by <a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="McDonnell Aircraft">McDonnell Aircraft</a> for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>. One of the precursors of modern <a href="/wiki/Anti-ship_missiles" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-ship missiles">anti-ship missiles</a>, it was extensively used as a test vehicle during the late 1940s. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design_and_development">Design and development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=LBD_Gargoyle&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Design and development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the successful use of the German <a href="/wiki/Henschel_Hs_293" title="Henschel Hs 293">Henschel Hs 293</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fritz-X" class="mw-redirect" title="Fritz-X">Fritz-X</a> guided bombs in combat during 1943, a requirement was issued by the U.S. Navy that October for a guided weapon based on similar principles.<sup id="cite_ref-DS_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Assigned as part of the Glomb ("glide bomb") project,<sup id="cite_ref-DS2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DS2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the weapon was code-named "Gargoyle", and following the completion of design work in the summer of 1944,<sup id="cite_ref-DS_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McDonnell Aircraft was awarded a contract for a test-and-evaluation production run of 400 Gargoyles in September, given the designation LBD-1.<sup id="cite_ref-Ord_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ord-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Intended for carriage by <a href="/wiki/Carrier-based_aircraft" title="Carrier-based aircraft">carrier-based aircraft</a>, Gargoyle was of fairly conventional small-aircraft design, weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kg) when ready for launch, and fitted with a low-mounted 8-foot-6-inch (2.59 m) wing and <a href="/wiki/V-tail" title="V-tail">v-tail</a> attached to a streamlined <a href="/wiki/Fuselage" title="Fuselage">fuselage</a>, 10 feet 1 inch (3.07 m) in length,<sup id="cite_ref-Ord_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ord-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> containing a 1,000-pound (450 kg) <a href="/wiki/Armor-piercing_bomb" class="mw-redirect" title="Armor-piercing bomb">armor-piercing bomb</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DS_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An <a href="/wiki/Aerojet" title="Aerojet">Aerojet</a> <a href="/wiki/Solid-propellant_rocket" title="Solid-propellant rocket">solid-propellant rocket</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/JATO" title="JATO">JATO</a> type and providing 1,000 <a href="/wiki/Pound_(force)" title="Pound (force)">lbf</a> (4.4 <a href="/wiki/Newton_(unit)" title="Newton (unit)">kN</a>) of thrust,<sup id="cite_ref-NASM_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASM-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was fitted to provide terminal boost to 600 miles per hour (970 km/h), and guidance was by <a href="/wiki/Radio_command_guidance" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio command guidance">radio command</a>, the missile being tracked visually via a <a href="/wiki/Flare" title="Flare">flare</a> mounted in the tail section.<sup id="cite_ref-DS_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The effective range of Gargoyle was 5 miles (8.0 km) when released at an altitude of 27,000 feet (8,200 m).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operational_history">Operational history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=LBD_Gargoyle&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Operational history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gargoyle's armor-piercing capability and the fact that it could be carried by carrier-based aircraft allowed development to continue despite late-war rationalizations of missile projects,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and following delivery of the first weapons to the Navy at the end of 1944 flight trials were begun in March 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Ord_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ord-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Difficulties encountered during the test program meant that by July only five of fourteen tests were considered to be "satisfactory" by the Navy,<sup id="cite_ref-Ord_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ord-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the first fully successful flight did not occur until July 1946. By then Gargoyle had been redesignated twice, to KSD-1 in October 1945 and in early 1946 to KUD-1 as a pure research effort.<sup id="cite_ref-DS_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The aerodynamic design of Gargoyle was, however, considered to be satisfactory from an aerodynamic standpoint; however, with the end of the war, the contract was reduced first to 375 missiles,<sup id="cite_ref-Ord_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ord-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then to 200, with the production run being completed by the summer of 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-DS_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That fall the Gargoyle was redesignated again under the U.S. Navy's new missile designation system, first to RTV-2 and then to the definitive RTV-N-2 in 1948. Testing continued through December 1950, Gargoyle being used to trial equipment and procedures for the Navy's other missile programs at the <a href="/wiki/Marine_Corps_Auxiliary_Air_Station_Mojave" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Station Mojave">Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Station Mojave</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before the program was finally terminated, the remaining RTV-N-2s being designated for scrapping.<sup id="cite_ref-DS_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Surviving_aircraft">Surviving aircraft</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=LBD_Gargoyle&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Surviving aircraft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:20180328_Gargoyle_Missile_Udvar-Hazy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/20180328_Gargoyle_Missile_Udvar-Hazy.jpg/220px-20180328_Gargoyle_Missile_Udvar-Hazy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/20180328_Gargoyle_Missile_Udvar-Hazy.jpg/330px-20180328_Gargoyle_Missile_Udvar-Hazy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/20180328_Gargoyle_Missile_Udvar-Hazy.jpg/440px-20180328_Gargoyle_Missile_Udvar-Hazy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4589" data-file-height="3462" /></a><figcaption>A Gargoyle Missile on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center</figcaption></figure> <p>A Gargoyle that was donated to the <a href="/wiki/National_Air_and_Space_Museum" title="National Air and Space Museum">National Air and Space Museum</a> in 1974 is on display at the <a href="/wiki/Steven_F._Udvar-Hazy_Center" title="Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center">Steven F. 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href="#cite_ref-Ord_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ordway and Wakeford 1960</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NASM-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NASM_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NASM_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px 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Smithsonian Institution. 26 September 2016. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/missile-air-surface-gargoyle">the original</a> on 21 July 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 December</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=National+Air+and+Space+Museum&rft.atitle=Gargoyle+Missile&rft.date=2016-09-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fairandspace.si.edu%2Fcollection-objects%2Fmissile-air-surface-gargoyle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALBD+Gargoyle" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Yenne 2006, p. 24.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Friedman 1982, p. 201.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jacobs and Whitney 1962, p. 69.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=LBD_Gargoyle&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFriedman1982" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Norman_Friedman" title="Norman Friedman">Friedman, Norman</a> (1982). <i>U.S. Naval Weapons: Every gun, missile, mine, and torpedo used by the U.S. Navy from 1883 to the present day</i>. 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title="Trainer aircraft">Trainers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="US_Navy" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:13.0em;;font-weight:normal;">US Navy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_T-45_Goshawk" title="McDonnell Douglas T-45 Goshawk">T-45 Goshawk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Military_transport_aircraft" title="Military transport aircraft">Transports</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:13.0em;;font-weight:normal;">US Air Force</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_119" title="McDonnell 119">Model 119</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_C-9" title="McDonnell Douglas C-9">C-9 Nightingale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_KC-10_Extender" title="McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender">KC-10 Extender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_YC-15" title="McDonnell Douglas YC-15">YC-15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_C-17_Globemaster_III" title="Boeing C-17 Globemaster III">C-17 Globemaster III</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:13.0em;;font-weight:normal;">US Navy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XH-20_Little_Henry" title="McDonnell XH-20 Little Henry">XH-20 Little Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache" title="Boeing AH-64 Apache">AH-64 Apache</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:13.0em;;font-weight:normal;">US Navy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XHJH_Whirlaway" title="McDonnell XHJH Whirlaway">XHJH Whirlaway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XHCH" title="McDonnell XHCH">XHCH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_HRH" title="McDonnell HRH">XHRH</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:13.0em;;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_120_Flying_Crane" title="McDonnell 120 Flying Crane">Model 120 Flying Crane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_MD_500_Defender" title="McDonnell Douglas MD 500 Defender">MD500 Defender</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">Drones (UAVs)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:13.0em;;font-weight:normal;">US Air Force</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ADM-20_Quail" title="ADM-20 Quail">ADM-20 Quail</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:13.0em;;font-weight:normal;">US Navy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_TD2D_Katydid" title="McDonnell TD2D Katydid">KDH Katydid</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">KUD</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:13.0em;;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Project_AQUILINE" title="Project AQUILINE">Aquiline</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Experimental_aircraft" title="Experimental aircraft">Experimental</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="US_Army_/_US_Air_Force" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:13.0em;;font-weight:normal;">US Army / US Air Force</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XV-1" title="McDonnell XV-1">XV-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_X-36" title="McDonnell Douglas X-36">X-36</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_STOL/MTD" title="McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD">F-15 STOL/MTD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_Bird_of_Prey" title="Boeing Bird of Prey">Bird of Prey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X" title="McDonnell Douglas DC-X">DC-X</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Spacecraft" title="Spacecraft">Spacecraft</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 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href="/wiki/McDonnell_XF-88_Voodoo" title="McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo">36–36V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_F-101_Voodoo" title="McDonnell F-101 Voodoo">36W–36DH</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XHJH_Whirlaway" title="McDonnell XHJH Whirlaway">37</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XH-20_Little_Henry" title="McDonnell XH-20 Little Henry">38</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_TD2D_Katydid" title="McDonnell TD2D Katydid">50</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_TD2D_Katydid" title="McDonnell TD2D Katydid">51</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_F3H_Demon" title="McDonnell F3H Demon">58</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XHJH_Whirlaway" title="McDonnell XHJH Whirlaway">61</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_HRH" title="McDonnell HRH">78</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XH-20_Little_Henry" title="McDonnell XH-20 Little Henry">79</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XV-1" title="McDonnell XV-1">82</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RIM-8_Talos" title="RIM-8 Talos">85</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_XHCH" title="McDonnell XHCH">86</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SSM-N-2_Triton" title="SSM-N-2 Triton">95</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II" title="McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II">98</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ADM-20_Quail" title="ADM-20 Quail">107</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_119" title="McDonnell 119">119</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_120_Flying_Crane" title="McDonnell 120 Flying Crane">120</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AAM-N-10_Eagle" title="AAM-N-10 Eagle">127</a></li> <li>133 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Project_Mercury" title="Project Mercury">133A–133K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Gemini" title="Project Gemini">133L–133P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Gemini" title="Big Gemini">133Q</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ASSET_(spacecraft)" title="ASSET (spacecraft)">151</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samos_(satellite)" title="Samos (satellite)">164</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temco_TT_Pinto" title="Temco TT Pinto">182</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temco_TT_Pinto" title="Temco TT Pinto">183</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Br%C3%A9guet_941" title="Bréguet 941">188</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Isinglass" title="Project Isinglass">192</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manned_Orbiting_Laboratory" title="Manned Orbiting Laboratory">195</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle" title="McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle">199</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Br%C3%A9guet_941" title="Bréguet 941">210</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_119" title="McDonnell 119">220</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpoon_(missile)" title="Harpoon (missile)">228</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II" title="McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II">258</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier" title="Hawker Siddeley Harrier">258AP</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F/A-18_Hornet" title="McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet">267</a></li></ul> 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