The High Virgo, also known as Weapons System 199C, was a prototype air-launched ballistic missile jointly developed by Lockheed and the Convair division of General Dynamics during the late 1950s. The
High Virgo missile on B-58 launch aircraft
An air-launched ballistic missile is a ballistic missile that is launched from an aircraft. An ALBM allows the launch aircraft to stand off at long distances from its target, keeping it well outside t
GAM-87 Skybolt
AGM-183 ARRW under the wing of a B-52
Air Mobile Feasibility demonstration, 24 October 1974
USAF concept art of a "Cruise Missile Carrying Aircraft" (CMCA) launching air-launched ballistic missiles or cruise missiles, possibly Longbow missiles[AI upscaled image]