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Description
This is the first of three Cruise-Missiles and their launchers that I'm currently developing. These are the M2A3 IMCTEL and the M2A3 "Claymore" Extreme-Range Cruise missile.

The "Blade" series of Cruise-missiles and coresponding launchers are designed to give the army mobile and accurate guided long range capability. The Claymore version has the longest range of the three but suffers from high costs, poor mobility and is intended to deliver a nuclear counter-attack if a enemy attack has destroyed the missile-silos and is thus unsuited for front-line combat.

The missile itself ventures past conventional cruise-missile designs in that it is only missile-powered at startof. The actual engine is a 1000 hp Turboprop powering 2x2 contra-rotating propellors. Due to "geometric issues" (read: Props crash into cabin at launch), the Individual blades start up folded with the tips to the rear, and it gets launched by 2 700 hp disposable boosters hidden in the exaust, after the missile is propelled to about 50 meters from the launcher. Then the blades fold out to operating size, the engine gets started and the exaust-fumes blow the boosters out of the exausts. After this is the missile accelerates to 850 km/h and climbs to the programmed cruise-altitude. After this it is guided by either a Gamma-radiation emitting beacon or GPS to its target and attacks the target by detonating its warhead at a programmed distance from the target

Vehicle Data:
Propulsion: 750 hp Turbo Diesel
Range: 300 km
Maximum Speed: 35 km/h

Missile Data:
Propulsion: 1000 hp Turboprop
Warhead: Up to 1500 kg.
Range: Up to 20.000 kilometers
Cruise-speed: 850 km/h
Cruise-altitude: Programmable between 300 meters and 10 kilometers altitude

Description
This is the first of three Cruise-Missiles and their launchers that I'm currently developing. These are the M2A3 IMCTEL and the M2A3 "Claymore" Extreme-Range Cruise missile.

The "Blade" series of Cruise-missiles and coresponding launchers are designed to give the army mobile and accurate guided long range capability. The Claymore version has the longest range of the three but suffers from high costs, poor mobility and is intended to deliver a nuclear counter-attack if a enemy attack has destroyed the missile-silos and is thus unsuited for front-line combat.

The missile itself ventures past conventional cruise-missile designs in that it is only missile-powered at startof. The actual engine is a 1000 hp Turboprop powering 2x2 contra-rotating propellors. Due to "geometric issues" (read: Props crash into cabin at launch), the Individual blades start up folded with the tips to the rear, and it gets launched by 2 700 hp disposable boosters hidden in the exaust, after the missile is propelled to about 50 meters from the launcher. Then the blades fold out to operating size, the engine gets started and the exaust-fumes blow the boosters out of the exausts. After this is the missile accelerates to 850 km/h and climbs to the programmed cruise-altitude. After this it is guided by either a Gamma-radiation emitting beacon or GPS to its target and attacks the target by detonating its warhead at a programmed distance from the target

Vehicle Data:
Propulsion: 750 hp Turbo Diesel
Range: 300 km
Maximum Speed: 35 km/h

Missile Data:
Propulsion: 1000 hp Turboprop
Warhead: Up to 1500 kg.
Range: Up to 20.000 kilometers
Cruise-speed: 850 km/h
Cruise-altitude: Programmable between 300 meters and 10 kilometers altitude