BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile

BGM-109G Gryphon (GLCM)[1]
BGM-109G Gryphon Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) showing 4 missile launch tubes
Typelong-range, all-weather, subsonic tactical/strategic cruise missile
Service history
In service1983–1991
Production history
ManufacturerGeneral Dynamics
Unit cost$1.3 million
Specifications
Mass1,200 kilograms (2,600 lb)
LengthWithout booster: 5.56 metres (18.2 ft)
Diameter0.52 metres (1.7 ft)
Wingspan2.67 metres (8.8 ft)
WarheadW84 thermonuclear warhead

EngineWilliams International F107-WR-400 turbofan
using TH-dimer fuel
and a solid-fuel booster
Operational
range
2,780 kilometres (1,730 mi)
Maximum speed Subsonic—880 kilometres per hour (550 mph)
Guidance
system
Inertial, TERCOM
Launch
platform
Transporter erector launcher

The Ground Launched Cruise Missile, or GLCM, (officially designated BGM-109G Gryphon) was a ground-launched cruise missile developed by the United States Air Force in the last decade of the Cold War and disarmed under the INF Treaty.

  1. ^ Cochran, Arkin & Hoenig 1984, pp. 179–184.