RE: Tomahawk
Bill,
Yup. The Tomahawk has a turbine engine.
Early models (made by the the designer, General Dynamics) had a Williams F107-400 turbofan at about 600 lbs thrust. The latest block variants from Raytheon use the Williams F-107WR402 engine, which has better fuel economy.
Back in 1979,80 and 81, I was on temporary layoff from Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Co. (As well as most of the engineering staff) and worked at General Dynamics (San Diego) in Bldg 5 of the Kearny Mesa facility, as a final assembly supervisor on the cruise missile project.
We used to migrate from company to company during hard times, and go back to our favorite employer when things improved. For several years, Teledyne Ryan and General Dynamics even used to loan people back and forth. They had contracts with each other to provide help as needed in the engineering departments. We were on opposite sides of the runway at Lindberg Field, so the commute was pretty easy.
At that time we were building the AGM-109 (air launched for fly-off against Boeing...they won) and sub launched, ship launched as well as ground launched variants. Lots of acronyms were developed for that product like SLCM, GLCM, ALCM, TALCM, etc. We spoke in code, for sure.
The entire fuselage forward of the tailcone was machined from 7079T-8511 forgings that were electron beam welded together. Seeing that process in action was like something right out of Star Wars. The tailcone was a standard built-up monocoque structure, the wings were bonded aluminum cores/skins, the folding tailfins were polycarbonate plastic injection molded (r/h and l/h skins with locating pins and sockets like a plastic model kit. (Much stronger, though).
I don't remember how much fuel it holds, but the number 54 comes to mind....maybe it holds 54 gallons....
The ground launch, sub launch and ship launch fuel was/is RJ-4 TH dimer. (Tetrahydromethylcyclopentadiene.....freeze point of aaround -54 degrees C.
Air launch used/uses RJ-6 high density fuel, composed of 40% cyclopentadiene and something else (as equally unpronounceable) that I don't remember. That was 28 years ago, so my memory is a little fuzzy.
Harley Condra
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