MGM-29 Sergeant

MGM-29 Sergeant

The MGM-29 Sergeant was an American short-range, solid fuel, surface-to-surface missile developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Activated by the US Army in 1962 to replace the MGM-5 Corporal it was deployed overseas by 1963, carrying the W52 nuclear warhead. It was replaced by the MGM-52 Lance and the last US Army battalion was deactivated in 1977.

The Sergeant had a takeoff thrust of 200 kN, a takeoff weight of 4530 kg, a diameter of 790 mm, a length of 10.52 m and a fin span of 1.80 m. It was used as the second stage of the Scout satellite launcher, and clusters of Sergeant-derived rockets were used in the second and third stages of the Jupiter-C sounding rocket and the Juno I launch vehicle.

Thiokol developed the Sergeant rocket motors -- and the Castor rocket stages derived from them -- at the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama. [cite web |url=http://www.boxelder.org/tourism/visitor/thiokol/ |title=Thiokol |publisher=Box Elder County, Utah]

Operators

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References

External links

* http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/sergeant.htm
* http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/systems/sergeant.html


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