Supersonic Low Altitude Missile
Weapons delivery platform project undertaken by the United States in the 1950s / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with AGM-84E Standoff Land Attack Missile.
The Supersonic Low Altitude Missile or SLAM was a U.S. Air Force nuclear weapons project conceived around 1955, and cancelled in 1964. SLAMs were conceived of as unmanned nuclear-powered ramjets capable of delivering thermonuclear warheads deep into enemy territory.[1] The development of ICBMs in the 1950s rendered the concept of SLAMs obsolete.[1] Advances in defensive ground radar also made the stratagem of low-altitude evasion ineffective. Although it never proceeded beyond the initial design and testing phase before being declared obsolete, the design contained several radical innovations as a nuclear delivery system.