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The Gorgon was an air-to-air missile powered by a turbojet engine and equipped with radio controls and a homing device. It was developed by the U.S. during World War II, was later expanded into a more general program including turbojet, ramjet, pulsejet, and rocket power. Straight wing, swept wing, and canard (tail first) air frames were investigated and visual, television, heat-homing, and three types of radar guidance were looked at for use as possible air-to-air, air-to-surface and surface-to-surface guided missiles and as target drones. The final development of the series, the ASM-N-5 Gorgon V, was to be an unpowered chemical weapons dispenser. ==Variants== ''Data from:''〔Parsch 2005〕 ;Gorgon IIA:Canard layout with single rocket ( may spit out fire at times) ::KA2N-1 - ::KU2N-1 - ::CTV-4 - ::CTV-N-4 - ;Gorgon IIB:Canard layout with single pulse-jet ;Gorgon IIIA:Conventional layout with single rocket ::KA3N-1 - ::KU3N-1 - ::CTV-6 - ::CTV-N-6 - ;Gorgon IIIB: ;Gorgon IIIC:Conventional layout with twin rockets ::KA3N-2 - ::KU3N-2 - ::RTV-4 - ::RTV-N-4 - ;Gorgon IV:Single ramjet ::KUM-1 - ::PTV-2 - ::PTV-N-2 - ;Gorgon V:Derivative of Gorgon IV ::ASM-N-5 Gorgon V - proposed chemical weapons dispenser variant ;NADC Plover:Drone variant of Gorgon IV ::KDM-1 - ;NADC Pollux:Similar to Gorgon IIC ::RTV-N-15 - ;KGN-1: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gorgon (missile family)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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