Lance missile ends long Army career. First developed in the 1960s as a replacement for the Honest John and Sergeant systems, the Lance was designed to be a mobile field artillery tactical missile.

The Lance missile system is a hypergolic liquid rocket that mixes two chemicals, nitric acid with hydrazine, that spontaneously ignite when they come into contact with each other to produce thrust.

The US Air Force is taking a bold step into the future of aerial combat with its revolutionary laser-powered fighter jet, ...

The Army-green 20-foot-long Lance missile, serial No. 4666, had been at the depot before, back in 1979, when workers gave it a fresh paint job.

The Long Lance was deadly, but Japan was bringing torpedoes to an air-sea fight. Which should remind us to be skeptical of “game-changing” weapons such as Chinese and Russian hypersonic missiles.

One reason was the “Long Lance,” the Japanese torpedo that was the most powerful weapon of its kind in the early years of World War II.Developed in the late 1920s, the Long Lance, as Americans ...

Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 load an AGM-158A joint air-to-surface standoff missile on an F/A-18 Hornet. (Lance Cpl. Jennifer Sanchez) Marine fighter pilots now have a missile ...

The Lance weapons were first built in 1972, and were retired 20 years later in 1992. The missiles used a hydrozine propellant which made them especially combustible. The warheads ultimately served ...

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The Air Force has acknowledged a problem with cheating on tests by nuclear missile officers. NPR spoke with eight former officers, and seven said they had participated in some kind of cheating.