The North American SM-64 Navaho was a supersonic intercontinental cruise missile project built by North American Aviation (NAA). The final design was capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to the USSR from bases within the US, while cruising at Mach 3 at 60,000 feet (18,000 m) altitude. The missile is named after the Navajo Nation.
Navaho missile on launch pad
The V-1 inspired a range of US Army Air Force missile designs.
The dual engine (XLR-71-NA-1) of the SM-64 Navaho at the Udvar-Hazy Center
Navaho on display at CCAFS, Florida
A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided vehicle that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path and whose primary mission is to place an ordnance or special payload on a target. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high precision. Modern cruise missiles are capable of traveling at high subsonic, supersonic, or hypersonic speeds, are self-navigating, and are able to fly on a non-ballistic, extremely low-altitude trajectory.
A BGM-109 Tomahawk flying in November 2002
A Fieseler Fi-103, the German V-1 flying bomb
BrahMos shown at IMDS 2007.
India's Nirbhay missiles mounted on a truck-based launcher