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BGM-109G Gryphon ground-launched cruise missile

Country of Origin: USA

The BGM-109G Gryphon was a mobile, long-range, theater nuclear cruise missile system that was deployed from 1983 to 1991 with U.S. Air Force units in Belgium, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands. and the U.K. The missile was developed from the Navy's non-nuclear BGM-109 Tomahawk.

The missile featured a torpedo-shaped fuselage with a ventral turbofan intake. The unswept wings and tail surfaces all "popped-out" after launch

The Gryphon was a winged, subsonic missile with the...

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