PGM-17 Thor
Thor adalah sebuah rudal balistik operasional yang pertama digunakan oleh Angkatan Udara AS (USAF). Dinamakan setelah dewa guntur Norse, ditempatkan di Inggris antara 1959 dan September 1963 sebagai rudal balistik (IRBM) kisaran menengah dengan hulu ledak termonuklir. Thor adalah dengan diameter 65 kaki (20 m) tinggi dan 8 kaki (2,4 m).
Sebuah keluarga besar ruang peluncuran kendaraan-Thor dan roket Delta berasal dari desain Thor. Sebuah versi modifikasi masih digunakan sebagai tahap pertama dari Delta II.
Referensi
- Boyes, John. Project Emily: The Thor IRBM and the Royal Air Force 1959–1963. Prospero, Journal of the British Rocketry Oral History Programme (BROHP) No 4, Spring 2007.
- Boyes, John. Project Emily: Thor IRBM and the RAF. Tempus Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7524-4611-0.
- Boyes, John. The Thor IRBM: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the subsequent run-down of the Thor Force. pub: Royal Air Force Historical Society. Journal 42, May 2008. ISSN 1361 4231.
- Forsyth, Kevin S. Delta: The Ultimate Thor. In Roger Launius and Dennis Jenkins (Eds.), To Reach The High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. ISBN 0-8131-2245-7.
- Hartt, Julian. The Mighty Thor: Missile in Readiness. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1961.
For RAF Squadrons list:
- Jefford, Wing Commander C.G., MBE, BA, RAF(Retd.). RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001). ISBN 1-85310-053-6. p. 178.
- Wynn, Humphrey. RAF Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Forces, their Origins, Roles and Deployment 1946-69. London: HMSO, 1994. ISBN 0-11-772833-0. p. 449.
Pranala luar
- Thor from Encyclopedia Astronautica
- Thor IRBM History site
- History of the Delta Launch Vehicle
- UK Thor missile launch sites on Secret Bases website
- UK Thor deployment in Lincolnshire
- Maxwell Hunter, "Father of the Thor Rocket"
- "YouTube contemporary film of Thor missiles at North Pickenham"
