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Space research program
The
Argentine
Condor missile
was a multinational space research program started in the 1970s. It involved significant contract work being performed by German company
MBB
(now a group within
Daimler AG
), but later developed into a
ballistic missiles
program.
Condor I
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The original Condor
[1]
had little military capability but helped build expertise later used for the
Alacran
missile program.
[2]
[3]
The Alacran program developed a functional short-range ballistic missile.
Specifications (Condor I)
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- Length: 8 metres (26 ft)
- Maximum diameter: 70 centimetres (28 in)
- Stages: 1
- Fuel:
HTPB
- Guidance system: inertial
- Apogee: 300 kilometres (190 mi)
- Range: 100 kilometres (62 mi)
- Payload: 500 kilograms (1,100 lb)
Alacran (Condor IAIII)
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The
Alacran
missile was a
short range ballistic missile
derived from the Condor Missile Program.
[4]
Derived from the Condor IAIII prototype, the Alacran missile had shorter stabilization fins, an
inertial guidance system
, and a 1000CAP1
cluster
warhead.
Specifications (Condor IAIII - Alacran)
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- Length: 8 metres (26 ft)
- Maximum diameter: 70 centimetres (28 in)
- Stages: 1
- Fuel:
HTPB
- Guidance system: inertial
- Apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi)
- Range: 115 kilometres (71 mi)
- Warhead: 1000CAM1
cluster munition
warhead, 500 kilograms (1,100 lb)
Condor II
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During and after the 1982
Falklands War
(
Spanish
:
Guerra de las Malvinas
), France (which supplied missiles) placed an arms embargo on Argentina, causing the
Argentine Air Force
, under the command of
Ernesto Crespo
, to develop its own medium-range missile in the
Condor II
[5]
program.
This program was undertaken in close collaboration with
Egypt
,
[6]
and then
Ba'athist Iraq
[7]
(the Iraqi version was called
BADR-2000
),
[8]
however it was discontinued in the early 1990s by President
Carlos Menem
because of political pressure from the United States.
[9]
[10]
The missile was developed in Falda del Carmen,
Cordoba Province
.
The Condor missile had a range of 800 km to 1,000 km
[11]
[12]
and a 1000CAP1 500 kg
cluster munition
warhead.
In 1997, the
Argentine Air Force
reported to the
US Congress
that it still possessed two of the missiles that were to be destroyed.
[13]
[14]
[
citation needed
]
Condor III
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There have been reports of a
Condor III
program. The Condor III would have an increased range to some 1,500 km (930 mi) with the same payload as the Condor II.
[11]
[15]
See also
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References
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- ^
"Condor 1"
. Astronautix.com. Archived from
the original
on October 22, 2003
. Retrieved
2013-10-14
.
- ^
"Alacran"
. Astronautix.com. Archived from
the original
on September 2, 2003
. Retrieved
2013-10-14
.
- ^
Joseph Cirincione; Jon B. Wolfsthal; Miriam Rajkumar (December 2011).
Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats
. Carnegie Endowment. pp. 388?.
ISBN
978-0-87003-288-2
.
- ^
Joseph Cirincione; Jon B. Wolfsthal; Miriam Rajkumar (December 2011).
Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats
. Carnegie Endowment. pp. 388?.
ISBN
978-0-87003-288-2
.
- ^
"Condor 2"
. Astronautix.com. Archived from
the original
on October 22, 2003
. Retrieved
2013-10-14
.
- ^
"Egypt's Missile Efforts Succeed with Help from North Korea"
. Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. 1996. Archived from
the original
on 2016-01-23.
- ^
"Argentina | Country Profiles"
. NTI. Archived from
the original
on 2013-12-26
. Retrieved
2013-10-14
.
- ^
"Badr-2000 - Iraq Special Weapons"
. Fas.org
. Retrieved
2013-10-14
.
- ^
"Condor Missile Programme (Hansard, 5 March 1996)"
.
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
. 1996-03-05
. Retrieved
2013-10-14
.
- ^
Cirincione, Joseph; Jon B. Wolfsthal; Miriam Rajkumar (2005).
Deadly arsenals : nuclear, biological, and chemical threats
(Second ed.). Washington, D.C.
ISBN
978-0-87003-288-2
.
OCLC
823345765
.
{{
cite book
}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link
)
- ^
a
b
"Egypt Missile Chronology"
(PDF)
.
Nti.org
. Retrieved
2016-01-26
.
- ^
Etel Solingen (9 February 2009).
Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East
. Princeton University Press. pp. 230?.
ISBN
978-1-4008-2802-9
.
- ^
Cirincione, Joseph; Jon B. Wolfsthal; Miriam Rajkumar (2005).
Deadly arsenals : nuclear, biological, and chemical threats
(Second ed.). Washington, D.C.
ISBN
978-0-87003-288-2
.
OCLC
823345765
.
{{
cite book
}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link
)
- ^
Robert E. Dundervill, Jr.; Peter F. Gerity; Anthony K. Hyder; Lawrence H. Luessen (9 March 2013).
Defense Conversion Strategies
. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 200?.
ISBN
978-94-017-1213-2
.
- ^
"Misil Condor III y Cohete tronador II (y algunos mas)"
.
Taringa.net
. 3 September 2011
. Retrieved
2016-01-26
.
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