List of nuclear-powered aircraft
Below is a list of nuclear powered aircraft and concepts:
Name or designation | Manufacturer | Role | Nationality | Period | Notability |
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9M730 Burevestnik[1][2][3][4] | Cruise Missile | Russia | 2018 | ||
Bell D-1007 | Bell Textron | Helicopter | United States | 1950s | |
Convair Model 23[5][6] | Convair | Bomber | United States | 1950s | |
Convair N-1 | Convair | Bomber | United States | 1950s | |
Convair N-2 | Convair | Bomber | United States | 1950s | |
Convair NB-36H[7][1] | Convair | Bomber | United States | 1950s | |
Convair NX-2 CAMAL[8] | Convair | Bomber | United States | 1950s | |
Convair X-6[9][10] | Convair | Bomber | United States | 1950s | |
De Havilland NP-3 | De Havilland | Bomber | United Kingdom | 1950s | |
De Havilland NP-4 | De Havilland | Bomber | United Kingdom | 1950s | |
Douglas Model 26[11] | Douglas Aircraft Corporation | Bomber | United States | 1950s | |
Douglas WS-125A | Douglas Aircraft Corporation | Bomber | United States | 1950s | |
Fedorov nuclear plane | Fedorov | Spaceplane/Helicopter concept | Soviet Union | 1920s | |
Hughes Interceptor | Hughes Aircraft Corporation | Interceptor | United States | 1950s | |
Lockheed CL-195 | Lockheed Corporation | United States | 1950s | ||
Lockheed CL-1201[12] | Lockheed Corporation | Transport | United States | 1960s | |
Lockheed L-248-3[13] | Lockheed Corporation | United States | 1950s | ||
Myasischev M-30[14] | Myasischev | Soviet Union | 1950s | ||
Myasischev M-60[15] | Myasischev | Soviet Union | 1950s | ||
Northrop N-34[16] | Northrop Corporation | United States | 1950s | ||
Northrop N-108[16] | Northrop Corporation | United States | 1950s | ||
Supersonic Low Altitude Missile[1] | United States | 1964 | |||
Tupolev Tu-95LAL[1] | Tupolev | Soviet Union | 1950s | ||
Tupolev Tu-119[17] | Tupolev | Soviet Union | 1950s | ||
WS-125[18] | United States | 1950s |
References
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- ^ Panda, Ankit [@nktpnd] (20 November 2018). "Update from a source: Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile has a NATO designator – SSC-X-9 SKYFALL. (USIC also calls this missile the KY30.)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Russian nuclear engineers buried after 'Skyfall nuclear' blast". Al Jazeera. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- ^ Lendon, Brad (20 July 2018). "Russia shows off new weapons after Trump summit". CNN. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
- ^ Bradley, Robert, 2010. Convair Advanced Designs: Secret Projects from San Diego 1923-1962. North Branch, MN: Specialty Press. ISBN 9781580071338
- ^ Buttler, Tony (2010). American Secret Projects: Bombers, Attack and Anti-Submarine Aircraft 1945 to 1974. Hinckley, England: Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-331-0.[page needed]
- ^ "Convair NB-36H "The Crusader"". National Museum of the US Air Force. 2009-06-26. Archived from the original on 2014-10-28. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
- ^ "NX-2_ANP_1951-1961_Convair_Nuclear_Propulsion_Jet.PDF" – via docs.google.com.
- ^ Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Defense (February 1963). Report to the Congress of the United States – Review of manned aircraft nuclear propulsion program (PDF). The Comptroller General of the United States. p. 141. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
- ^ "Nuclear Powered Aircraft", Radiation works, Brookings Institution, archived from the original on March 2, 2006.
- ^ AMERICAN SECRET PROJECTS BOMBERS, ATTACK AND ANTI-SUBMARINE AIRCRAFT 1945 TO 1974, Hinckley, England: Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-331-0 page 94.
- ^ Rose, Bill; Secret Projects: Flying Wings and Tailless Aircraft. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-1-85780-320-4.[page needed]
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- ^ "M-30 Draft strategic bomber - RedStar". www.redstar.gr.
- ^ "М-60 В.М.Мясищева". www.testpilot.ru.
- ^ a b Flying Wings and Radical Things, page 262.
- ^ Buttler & Gordon 2004, pp. 79–80
- ^ "Aviation History: The airplane that never was". www.aopa.org. January 1, 2018.
Bibliography
- Buttler, Tony; Gordon, Yefim (2004). "Chapter 6: Nuclear Power and Flying Wings". Soviet secret projects : Bombers since 1945. Hinckley: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-194-6. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2012.