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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