Object Details
- Manufacturer
- ProtoVision, Inc.
- Summary
- This is a full-scale model of the Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) Guidance Enhanced Missile + (GEM +), a U.S. Army one-stage, solid-fuel, ground-launched interceptor designed to destroy tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, or aircraft with a conventional high-explosive warhead. With a maximum speed of over 3,500 mph, it operates between 1.5 and 20 miles altitude and a range in excess of 60 miles. The Patriot PAC-2 GEM +, with an improved warhead and missile acquisition and tracking system, was built by Raytheon and entered service in 2002. It was used during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- ProtoVision made this model and Raytheon donated it to NASM in 2006.
- Alternate Name
- Patriot Advanced Capability-2 Guidance Enhanced Missile Plus
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Raytheon Company
- Inventory Number
- A20070026000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Missile is plastic and metal
- Stand and stand support are metal
- Dimensions
- Overall (missile): 19ft x 2ft 10in. (579.12 x 86.36cm)
- Overall (stand base): 4in. x 7ft 1in. x 8ft 8in. (10.16 x 215.9 x 264.16cm)
- Overall (stand support): 3ft 1in. x 1ft (93.98 x 30.48cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Exhibit Station
- Rockets & Missiles
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20070026000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9c18d2809-9ca7-40ca-9d8b-2fd56e320594
