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class="infobox-above hproduct" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;"><span class="fn org"> AUM-N-6 Puffin </span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:XAUM-N-6_Puffin_on_JD-1_Invader.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/XAUM-N-6_Puffin_on_JD-1_Invader.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="176" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="176" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Puffin on a <a href="/wiki/JD-1_Invader" class="mw-redirect" title="JD-1 Invader">JD-1 Invader</a> launch aircraft</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anti-ship_missile" title="Anti-ship missile">anti-ship missile</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Place of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Service history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">In service</th><td class="infobox-data">1948–1949</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Used by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Production history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Designer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_Bureau_of_Standards" class="mw-redirect" title="National Bureau of Standards">National Bureau of Standards</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Designed</th><td class="infobox-data">1947–1948</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" 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 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">1,300 lb (590 kg)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Warhead</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Torpedo" title="Torpedo">torpedo</a> or <a href="/w/index.php?title=Plunge_bomb&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plunge bomb (page does not exist)">plunge bomb</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Warhead weight</th><td class="infobox-data">500 lb (230 kg)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Engine</th><td class="infobox-data">McDonnell <a href="/wiki/Pulsejet" title="Pulsejet">pulsejet</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><div style="line-height:1.25em">Operational<br />range</div></th><td class="infobox-data">20 mi (32 km)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="Maximum speed of vehicle or missile">Maximum speed </span></th><td class="infobox-data">Mach 0.7</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><div style="line-height:1.25em">Guidance<br />system</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Active_radar_homing" title="Active radar homing">Active radar homing</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>AUM-N-6 Puffin</b>, also known as <b>Kingfisher F</b> and <b>AUM-6</b>, was an <a href="/wiki/Anti-ship_missile" title="Anti-ship missile">anti-ship</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anti-submarine_missile" title="Anti-submarine missile">anti-submarine missile</a> developed for use by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> in the late 1940s. <a href="/wiki/Pulsejet" title="Pulsejet">Pulsejet</a>-powered and intended to allow an aircraft to launch a <a href="/wiki/Aerial_torpedo" title="Aerial torpedo">torpedo</a> or <a href="/wiki/Aerial_bomb" title="Aerial bomb">bomb</a> from <a href="/wiki/Standoff_weapon" class="mw-redirect" title="Standoff weapon">stand-off range</a>, it was flight-tested but failed to enter operational service. </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=AUM-N-6_Puffin&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Design and development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1944 the U.S. Navy and the <a href="/wiki/National_Bureau_of_Standards" class="mw-redirect" title="National Bureau of Standards">National Bureau of Standards</a> initiated <a href="/wiki/Project_Kingfisher" title="Project Kingfisher">Project Kingfisher</a>,<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> intended to develop a family of missiles for attacking enemy ships and surfaced submarines with torpedoes or other weapons intended to strike below the waterline, while allowing the launching aircraft or ship to avoid exposing themselves to enemy defensive fire. Four missiles reached the development stage as a result of the program: the surface-launched <a href="/wiki/SUM-N-2_Grebe" title="SUM-N-2 Grebe">Kingfisher E</a>, and the air-launched <a href="/wiki/AUM-N-2_Petrel" title="AUM-N-2 Petrel">Kingfisher C</a>, <a href="/wiki/AUM-N-4_Diver" title="AUM-N-4 Diver">D</a>, and F.<sup id="cite_ref-Fried203_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fried203-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Work on Kingfisher F began on 5 February 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-Fried203_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fried203-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Weighing 1,300 pounds (590 kg),<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> the missile was of conventional small-aircraft design with a high-mounted wing and <a href="/wiki/V-tail" title="V-tail">V-tail</a>, a pulsejet engine being mounted in the rear of a streamlined fuselage.<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> Guidance was by <a href="/wiki/Active_radar_homing" title="Active radar homing">active radar homing</a>; after release from the launching aircraft, the missile – redesignated AUM-6 in September 1947, and AUM-N-6 Puffin in 1948 – would cruise at an altitude of 200 feet (61 m),<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> traveling up to 20 miles (32 km) at <a href="/wiki/Mach_number" title="Mach number">Mach 0.7</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> The onboard radar in the missile's nose selecting a target and steering the missile into position to release its payload, carried in the mid-fuselage;<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> while some sources state that a torpedo was intended to be carried,<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> the specification for Kingfisher F called for the missile to carry a 500-pound (230 kg) <a href="/w/index.php?title=Plunge_bomb&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plunge bomb (page does not exist)">plunge bomb</a>, intended to be dropped alongside the target ship and detonate underwater, holing the target vessel below the waterline and causing flooding.<sup id="cite_ref-Fried203_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fried203-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/AD_Skyraider" class="mw-redirect" title="AD Skyraider">AD Skyraider</a>, <a href="/wiki/PB4Y_Privateer" class="mw-redirect" title="PB4Y Privateer">PB4Y Privateer</a>, and <a href="/wiki/P5M_Marlin" class="mw-redirect" title="P5M Marlin">P5M Marlin</a> were among the aircraft intended to carry Puffin; the missile's constructor, <a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="McDonnell Aircraft">McDonnell Aircraft</a>, proposed that Puffin be qualified for carriage by <a href="/wiki/B-47_Stratojet" class="mw-redirect" title="B-47 Stratojet">B-47 Stratojet</a> and <a href="/wiki/B-50_Superfortress" class="mw-redirect" title="B-50 Superfortress">B-50 Superfortress</a> bombers of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> as well.<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=AUM-N-6_Puffin&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Operational history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Construction of Puffin was contracted to <a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="McDonnell Aircraft">McDonnell Aircraft</a>;<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> flight tests of XAUM-N-6 missiles began in 1948.<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> Tests did not demonstrate that the weapon was suitable for service, and on 1 October 1949 the AUM-N-6 program was cancelled.<sup id="cite_ref-Fried203_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fried203-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AUM-N-6_Puffin&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AUM-N-6_Puffin&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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