AIR-2 Genie

The Genie was an unguided air-to-air missile with a nuclear warhead, used by interceptor aircraft of the United States Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force.

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The interception of Soviet bombers was a great military preoccupation of the late 1940s and 1950s. The revelation in 1947 that the Soviet Union had produced a reverse-engineered copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the Tupolev Tu-4 (NATO reporting name 'Bull'), which could reach the continental United States in a one-way attack, followed by the Soviets developing the atomic bomb in 1949, produced considerable panic.

AIR-2 Genie: Development ►

Air-to-air: REDIRECT Air-to-air missile...

Nuclear warhead: REDIRECT nuclear weapon...

Interceptor: Interceptor has several meanings:...

AIR-2 Genie related Images and Photos (experimental)

Air Mail	Air Mail	Air India	Air Picks
Air France	Air Afrique	Air Afrique	Air Afrique
Air Afrique	Air Catalina	Con-Air	Con-Air

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►	Introduction
►	Development
►	Specifications (AIR-2A)
►	See also

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