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Weapon System is a United States military term that designated, along with a weapon system number (e.g., WS-110), military experimental (MX) weapons prior to official naming (e.g., under a military aircraft designation system. Preceded by the first Skunk Works program ( MX-813 for the Convair XF-92 in 1946), the earliest "WS" designation was the 1954 WS-117L. Circa February 1950, an Air Research and Development Command "''study prepared by Maj Gen Gordon P. Saville ... recommended that a 'systems approach' to new weapons be adopted [whereby] development of a weapon "system" required development of support equipment as well as the actual hardware itself.''"
The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger in November 1949 was decided by the USAF to be built around a fire-control system--"the real beginning of the weapon system approach [and the] aircraft would be integrated into the weapon system "as a whole from the beginning, so the characteristics of each component were compatible with the others.".
US weapon programs often were initiated by numbered government specifications such as an Advanced Development Objective (e.g., ADO-40) or a General Operational Requirement (e.g., GOR.80), although some programs were initially identified by contractor numbers (e.g., CL-282).
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, 102 (GOR-170)2
Samos (satellite)
SM-64 Navaho
SM-65 Atlas
WS-110 (GOR.82)
WS-110A
WS-110L
supersonic reconnaissance aircraft
Lockheed A-12
WS-125A (GOR.81)
XB-70 Valkyrie
WS-117L (GOR.80)
Advanced Reconnaissance System (originally Project 1115); recoverable capsule - Pied Piper/Sentry/ SAMOS; television transmission - unfeasible; Subsystem G: MiDAS
WS-119B (USAF 7795)
Bold Orion ASAT
WS-119L
Project Moby Dick (originally Project Genetrix)
WS-120A
BGM-75 AICBM
WS-133A ( Program 494L)
LGM-30 Minuteman
AGM-28 Hound Dog
Anti-satellite weapon
Bold Orion
High Virgo
Alpha Draco
1954 interceptor
interceptor design similar to fighter-bomber design that would become North American F-107
North American F-107
WS-224A
Phase I: BMEWS, Phase II: Wizard missile system
CL-282
Lockheed U-2
Republic F-105 Thunderchief (misidentified as WS-3061)
WS315A
PGM-17 Thor missile
Northrop XP-79
General Dynamics F-111
Lockheed CL-400 Suntan
Program 437 (ADO-40)
"nonorbital collision course satellite interceptor" using modified Thor
Program 437 X (AP)
Alternate payload (AP) for satellite inspection ("a heritage of SAINT")
Program 437 Y
second development plan for Program 437 (later renamed Program 922)
Program 505
MUDFLAP ASAT
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Douglas Skystreak, Skyraider
Distant Early Warning Line
cruise missile precursor to Bomarc
Blue Scout
Air Force System 621B'''
GPS
DSP-647
Defense Support Program
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Bell X-1
SM-64 Navaho
Navy tactical cruise missile superseded by MX-773
SSM-N-8 Regulus
feasibility designs for subsonic and supersonic surface-to-surface missiles (three WSPG launches July–December 1948){{cite book
RTV-A-4 Shrike
GAM-63 RASCAL
Convair XF-92
Program 893
ICBM ASAT
GAR-1 Falcon missile
Program 922
rename of Program 437 Y
Western Electric RCDC for the Improved Nike Hercules Air Defense Guided Missile System
1954 Interceptor (Convair's proposed airframe was used for an interim interceptor—F-102A; as well as the 1954 interceptor-- F-102B; Republic's proposed design was used for the separate F-103 project.)
nuclear-powered Convair B-36
(FZP-110)
initial Convair proposal for eventual Convair B-58 Hustler award
Boeing Generalized Bomber Study (GEBO II) proposal]] (competitor against winning Convair MX-1712 design for B-58 Hustler)
CIM-10 Bomarc
Convair B-58 Hustler (previously MX-1626)
Boeing XB-59
Usage examples of "weapon system".
Colonel Smith looked up just in time to see the tip of one of his antennas get sheered off by some odd Posleen weapon system.
The tech only need keep his thumb on the firing tab and the weapon system would do all the work.
I can do that, but only if I'm ready to defend the argument that it involves a private development of a major weapon system.
Until the weapon system that destroyed it was more effectively countered, those survivors had also witnessed an end to one of America’.
He wasted time going back, and then even more overriding the weapon system’.
Surprise may result from technology, but the actual surprise is not in the weapon system.
Good luck finding an agent who can understand the technical material involved well enough to know an alien weapon system from a bag of popcorn—.
What did change was the fact that, in the Bolo, humanity had, in a sense, developed a weapon system which was better than humanity itself was.
Instead of flaring once with a short burst of energy, like a starfighter weapon system, they continued pouring out laser light.