RK-55
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The Novator RK-55 Relief is a Russian Navy cruise missile that is launched either from submarines or from surface ships. It can have a nuclear warhead developed in the Soviet Union. A version launched
RK-55 transporter erector launcher
BGM-109G Gryphon
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The BGM-109G Gryphon ground-launched cruise missile, or GLCM, was a ground-launched variant of the Tomahawk cruise missile developed by the United States Air Force in the last decade of the Cold War a
RK-55
…Ukraine Korshun (Luch Artem - KhAZ - Vizar ZhMZ - Yuzhnoe Pivdenmash) with MS400 (Ivchenko Progres Motor Sich) engine. Ground Launched Cruise Missile (BGM-109G Gryphon) - land-based Tomahawk with tactical nuclear warhead of 10-50 kt and 2000–2500 km range Pershing 1b and Pershing II RR - 740 km range…
BGM-109G Gryphon transporter–erector–launcher (TEL) showing 4 missile launch tubes
BGM-109G on display at the National Museum of US Air Force
Diorama of a ground-launched cruise missile GAMA (GLCM Alert and Maintenance Area)
GAMAs at RAF Molesworth, England. 4 GAMAs, 1 per flight, each holding 16 missiles, a total 64 missiles. Molesworth was completely reconstructed between 1981 and 1985, being transformed from a largely abandoned World War II Eighth Air Force B-17 base to a modern NATO facility. The large World War II "J" type hangar in the upper left was retained as a memorial to the World War II 303d Bombardment Group. Both Bob Hope and Glenn Miller performed USO shows in that hangar during the war years.