{"id":1339,"date":"2021-03-29T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2021-03-29T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:37:08","slug":"the-gam-63-rascal-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/the-gam-63-rascal-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"The GAM-63 RASCAL Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Background<\/h3>\n

The GAM-63 RASCAL is a supersonic Air-to-surface missile that was developed by the Bell Aircraft Company. The RASCAL was the United States Air Force’s first nuclear armed standoff missile. The RASCAL was initially designated the ASM-A-2, then re-designated the B-63 in 1951 and finally re-designated the GAM-63 in 1955.<\/p>\n

The name RASCAL was the acronym for RAdar SCAnning Link, the missile’s guidance system. The RASCAL project was cancelled in September 1958.<\/p>\n

Document Archive<\/h3>\n

\"\" Historical Study on Aircraft and Weapon Systems Tested at the Air Force Missile Development Center \u00a0<\/a>[359 Pages, 84.2MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" GAM-63 Missile Development\u00a0Program<\/a> [39 Pages, 11.22MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" HQ USAF Logistics Concept, GAM-63 Weapon System<\/a> [20 Pages, 600kb]<\/p>\n

\"\" The History of the RASCAL Missile, 1952-1958<\/a> [158 pages, 58MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" Missile Logistics, Volume 1: Text (Historical Study No. 328). 1952-1958<\/a> [115 pages, 5.7mb]<\/p>\n

\"\" Project RASCAL \/ Project Shrike, 31 March 1953<\/a> [88 Pages, 14.5MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" R&D Information Report, Missile Logistics, 1951-1959<\/a> [18 Pages, 1.71MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" RASCAL (Project MX-776), September 30, 1968<\/a> [76 Pages, 12.49MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" RASCAL (MX-776B)<\/a> [130 Pages, 51MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" RASCAL: Air to Ground Guided Missile<\/a> [94 Pages, 35.45MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" RASCAL\u00a0Weapon System (Project MX-776)<\/a> [80 Pages, 11.65MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" RASCAL Weekly Test Reports<\/a> [220 Pages, 44.15MB]<\/p>\n

System 112A<\/h3>\n

\"\" System 112A\u00a0– Rascal Missile System, 1 May 1959<\/a>\u00a0[96 Pages, 36MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" System 112A\u00a0– Flight Test Summary – 1 July 1958<\/a>\u00a0[63 Pages, 13.3MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" System 112A\u00a0– Quarterly Progress Report, 31 March 1957<\/a> [80 Pages, 41MB]<\/p>\n

\"\" System 112A\u00a0– Quarterly Progress Report,\u00a030\u00a0June 1957<\/a> [70 Pages, 10.5MB]<\/p>\n

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Background The GAM-63 RASCAL is a supersonic Air-to-surface missile that was developed by the Bell Aircraft Company. The RASCAL was the United States Air Force’s first nuclear armed standoff missile. The RASCAL was initially designated the ASM-A-2, then re-designated the B-63 in 1951 and finally re-designated the GAM-63 in 1955. The name RASCAL was the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[88,647,657,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-1339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-military-defense","8":"category-weapons","9":"tag-bell-aircraft","10":"tag-missile","11":"tag-rascal","12":"tag-weapon"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bell_XGAM-63_Rascal_USAF.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}