From The Archives: Army/LTV Lance Launched

On the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Feb. 17, 1975, issue, a U.S. Army/LTV Aerospace Corp. Lance battlefield support missile leaves its self-propelled tracked launcher in a test of a non-nuclear high-explosive warhead. 

The warhead, developed as an alternate for the nuclear-armed Lance then deployed in Europe, carried bomblet submunitions. 

At the time the U. S. Army was considering taking first deliveries of approximately 110 LTV Aerospace MGM-52C Lance battlefield support missiles for Israel out of its own stocks, making the Middle East country the first foreign nation to receive the weapon. 

The system ultimately was removed from service at the end of the Cold War. LTV photo by Paul W. Bower.

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