# 1960s MISSILES OF THE U.S. NAVY SPARROW BULLPUP POLARIS LOON V-2 ROCKET 21144

This U.S. Navy film traces the history of U.S. missile development up until 1958. It includes footage from World War II of the BAT, a small guided missile for anti-ship use. It also features footage of: the JB-1 Loon (a submarine-launched version of the German V-1 Buzz Bomb), the Terrier, the Talos, Polaris, Bullpup, the V-2 missile, the Regulus I, the Regulus II, and the Sidewinder. It also includes footage of the Naval Research Laboratory NRL, the Naval Missile Test Center at Point Mugu in California, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and the Martin corporation where missiles and components are designed, built and tested. Ships that are seen include the guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach CGN-9, aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69, USS Nimitz CV-41, USS Randolph CV-15, USS Forrestal CV-59, the submarines USS Tunny SS-282, USS Cusk SS-348, and the USS Grayback SSG-574. The Demon fighter and other aircraft of the period are shown, and a B-17 being used as a target drone. This early 1960s color US Navy film is titled “Missiles of the Navy” and opens with a series of launches and the promises that these weapons are bringing great changes to naval warfare. The film opens with the supercarrier USS Forestal (CA-59) shown at sea as crew members work on AAM-N-6 Sparrow III air-to-air missiles in the carrier’s ordnance rooms before sending them topside for placement on a McDonnell F3H Demon fighter. “In today’s fighter,…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/21144missilesofthenavy)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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