LTV MGM-52 Lance

The MGM-52 Lance was a mobile tactical surface-to-surface missile system that gave the United States Army both nuclear and conventional fire support, and it appears among the missiles in the product list of Vought and its Ling-Temco-Vought parent. The first Lance missiles were deployed in 1972, replacing the Honest John rocket and the Sergeant missile and greatly reducing the weight and bulk of the system while improving accuracy and mobility. It used stable liquid propellants, with a small sustainer engine mounted inside a toroidal boost engine, and could exceed Mach 3 with a range of up to 129 kilometers. It was spin stabilized with a simple inertial navigation system and had a circular error probable of about 150 meters. Warheads were a W70 nuclear warhead of 1 to 100 kilotons, including an enhanced radiation version, or conventional munitions such as a cluster of 836 M74 bomblets. It was removed from service between 1991 and 1994 and partly replaced by the MGM-140 ATACMS.