Vought SSM-N-8 Regulus

The Vought SSM-N-8 Regulus, also called the Regulus I and later the RGM-6, was a nuclear-capable, turbojet-powered cruise missile that the United States Navy operated from 1955 to 1964. It was a second generation design that grew out of Navy trials with the German V-1 missile at Naval Air Station Point Mugu in California. Its barrel-shaped fuselage resembled the fighter aircraft of its day, but without a cockpit. Test missiles carried landing gear and could take off and land like an airplane, while deployed missiles were launched from a rail launcher with a pair of Aerojet JATO rocket bottles on the aft fuselage. Vought is the manufacturer named for it in the company's own product list, which dates the Regulus to 1951.