MGM-29 Sergeant
| MGM-29 Sergeant | |
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| General Information | |
| Type | Short-range ballistic missile |
| Manufacturer | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| development | 1953 |
| Commissioning | 1962 |
| Technical specifications | |
| length | 10.52 m |
| diameter | 780 mm |
| Combat weight | 4570 kg |
| span | 1550 mm |
| drive | Solid rocket engine |
| Range | 140 km |
| Furnishing | |
| Target location | Inertial navigation system |
| Warhead | Nuclear 200 kT or 500 kg fragmentation warhead or 330 M139 sarin bombs |
| Detonator | Impact fuse |
| Lists on the subject | |
The MGM-29 Sergeant was a ballistic military short-range missile the time of the Cold War from American production. The corps artillery of the army was equipped with it. The rocket had a launch thrust of 200 kN (20,400 kg), a launch mass of 4,570 kg, a diameter of 0.78 m, a length of 10.52 m and a fin span of 1.50 m. The missile, which can be equipped with a nuclear warhead , was propelled by solid fuel and had a range of up to 140 km.
Decommissioned sergeant missiles were also used in combination with additional upper stages as civil and military sounding rockets . The Sergeant's rocket engine evolved into the civilian Castor rocket engine , which was used for a number of space projects .
Stationing of the Sergeant missile in the Federal Republic of Germany
In the Federal Republic of Germany, four rocket artillery battalions (RakArtBtl) of the Bundeswehr were equipped with sergeant short-range missiles between 1965 and 1977. These battalions, which were directly involved in the NATO concept of " nuclear participation ", were distributed between Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-Württemberg as follows:
- Missile artillery battalion 150 in the Schill barracks , Wesel , North Rhine-Westphalia
- Rocket artillery battalion 250 in the Eberhard Finckh barracks , Engstingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Rocket artillery battalion 350 in the Westerwald barracks , Montabaur , Rhineland-Palatinate
- Rocket artillery battalion 650 in the Briesen barracks , Flensburg , Schleswig-Holstein .
The power of disposal over the nuclear warheads deposited in specially fortified so-called special ammunition sites ( Special Ammunition Sites ) lay within NATO with the USA and was exercised in the individual units by a US Army Field Artillery Detachment .
In 1976, the sergeant systems at all four locations were replaced by Lance short-range missiles that could also be equipped with nuclear weapons .
