Military


RIM-24 Tartar

Tartar was a Navy surface-to-air, supersonic missile designed to be destroyer based. It 15 feet long, 12 inches in diameter and weighed 1,200 pounds. Propulsion was provided by a dual-thrust, solid-fuel rocket motor which had an initial high thrust to boost the missile to supersonic velocity, and a lower thrust for sustaining velocity. Tartar had a range in excess of 10 miles.