SSM-A-5 Boojum [SEP] manufacturer
SSM-A-5 Boojum
The XSSM-A-5 Boojum, also known by the project number MX-775B, was a supersonic cruise missile developed by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Air Force in the late 1940s. Intended to deliver a nuclear warhead over intercontinental range, it was determined to be too ambitious a project given technical difficulties with the SM-62 Snark which it was to follow on from, and was canceled in 1951.
Development.
As part of a United States Army Air Forces effort to develop guided missiles for the
Boojum
Boojum may refer to:
- A fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark"; a particularly dangerous kind of snark
- Jud Wilson (Jud "Boojum" Wilson), American baseball player
- Boojum (superfluidity), a phenomenon in physics associated with superfluid helium-3
- Boojum tree or cirio of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico
- SSM-A-5 Boojum, a planned, but never completed, supersonic version of the SM-62 Snark, an intercontinental cruise