The PGM-17A Thor was the first operative ballistic missile of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was named after the Norse god of thunder. It was deployed in the United Kingdom between …

The SM-75/PGM-17A Thor intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) was the product of the early Cold War race to deploy nuclear armed missiles before the Soviets. Thor was designed …

雷神导弹（Thor）是美国空军第一代战略弹道导弹，名字来自北欧神话中的雷神索爾。 1959年至1963年9月作为 远程弹道导弹 (IRBM) 部署在英国。 导弹高20米，直径2.4米。

Thor was an Intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM)with a 1,500 mile range. Built by Douglas Aircraft, it was a single stage, inertially guided, liquid fueled (LOX and RP-1), 65 foot long missile.

In addition to giving the U.S. Air Force a potent weapon to augment its ballistic missile arsenal, the Thor IRBM laid an important foundation for the U.S. space program as it formed the basis …

1981年9月4日 · On 11 September and 22 December 1959, the second and third British-based Thor IRBM squadrons were declared operational and assigned to Royal Air Force personnel.

2016年5月2日 · Atlas, Thor, and Titan I Faced with growing evidence of the Soviet Union’s development of thermo-nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology in 1953, the Air …

2013年1月15日 · Thor was the free world’s first operational intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM). It was 65 feet long, 8 feet in diameter and weighed 105,000 pounds. Douglas Aircraft …

2022年1月27日 · Thor was the first operational ballistic missile deployed by the USAF. Named after the Norse god of thunder, it was deployed in the United Kingdom between 1959 and …

2005年6月13日 · At first the Air Force proposed developing the IRBM as a derivative of the ICBM, but after a Department of Defense study panel showed that approach to be impractical, the Air …