Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1995 12:47:59 -0700
From: PPUGLIESE@pimacc.pima.edu
Subject: Missle sizes

Just thought someone might be interested in some 'real-world'
USN missle sizes.

(Note; info from 'US Naval Weapons', Norman Friedman, 1983)

		      diameter		length		weight
Air-to-air 		     	
Sidewinder 		 5"		112.2"		188lbs
Sparrow 		 8"		143.85"		510lbs
AMRAAM			 7"		140.7"		327lbs	
Phoenix			15"		157.8"		985lbs

Air-to-surface
Harpoon			13"		180"		1304lbs
Tomahawk		21"		252"		3181lbs

Surface-to-air
Standard ER		13.5"		314"		2900lbs
Standard MR		13.5"		168"		1400lbs

 
For comparison		 19.7"=.5m
			 29.5"=.75m
			 39.4"=1.0m
			157.5"=4.0m
			
Phil

ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu


Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:34:05 -0600 (MDT)
From: merrick@Rt66.com (Merrick Burkhardt)
Subject: Re: Missile sizes


Hi, there was a post a while back regarding missile sizes using US Navy
examples...  I figured the volume for the biggest of them, the Tomahawk.

I assumed it was a simple cylinder, so this result is generous.  It is
1.43kl.  One standard traveller missile is almost 5 times bigger than a
tomahawk.

The Pheonix is the right length at around 4m, but it is only 0.46kl.

CT/MT missiles were Tomohawk sized damn near exactly at 0.1 ton.

-Merrick