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Regulus I SSM-N-8 was the United States first true cruise missile. Its specifications included a diameter of 56 inches, a length of 32 feet 2 inches, a weight of 10,311 pounds, wings spanning 21 feet, a range of 500 nautical miles, a ramjet engine, a warhead of 3,000 pounds or a 10 kiloton nuclear device, radio-controlled navigation by radar picket submarines, and two JATO boosters with 1,752 pounds of thrust each. First tested 29 March 1951, it was built in a total of 514 by December 1958. The time required to ready it for launch and its navigation method hindered the project and its tactical deployment, and only three submarines were built that could launch these missiles.
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