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

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Introduction
Development
Specifications (AIR-2A)
See also
 


 

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B-29 (1) - Tupolev (1) - Soviet Union (1) - Reverse-engineered (1) - Tu-4 (1) - Atomic bomb (1) - 1949 (1) - NATO reporting name (1) - United States (1) - 1947 (1) - Interceptor (1) - United States Air Force (1) - Air-to-air (1) - Nuclear warhead (1) - Royal Canadian Air Force (1) -
 

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