MGM-52 Lance Missile System
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The LANCE was a mobile field artillery tactical missile system used to provide both nuclear and non-nuclear general fire support to the Army Corps. Designed to attack key enemy targets beyond the range of cannon artillery and to reinforce the fires of other artillery units, the LANCE replaced the HONEST JOHN system, fielded in 1954, and the SERGEANT system, deployed in 1962. It filled the U.S. Army's need for a highly mobile, medium-range, fin stabilized, all weather, surface-to-surface missile weapon system. The LANCE's primary mission targets included enemy missile firing positions, airfields, transportation centers, command and logistic installations, critical terrain features (defiles, bridgeheads, main supply routes, etc.), and large troop concentrations.
The missile was incrementally guided by a self-contained system using the Directional Control Automatic Meteorological (DCAM) Compensation concept. The LANCE missile was launched by a high thrust booster that propelled it out to 1500 meters. The boost phase direction was controlled by a gyro commanding secondary injection into the booster. The booster cut off and the variable thrust sustainer, controlled by an accelerometer, provided the exact amount of thrust to equal the missile drag. The result was a predictable trajectory that essentially eliminated errors caused by atmospheric disturbances or changes. The missile was aimed using field artillery techniques plus the variable booster time. Unlike other Army missiles that use solid propellants, the LANCE used a prepackaged, liquid fuel that eliminated any need for fueling in the field and gave the LANCE a short reaction time. It was capable of delivering a W70 nuclear warhead (variable yield of between 1 and 100 kilotons) out to a range of about 75 miles and conventional warheads to a range of about 45 miles.
The missile system briefly gained notoriety as the "neutron bomb," after the Washington Post reported on the Army's development of a warhead for the LANCE that would kill people but cause minimal destruction of property. The enhanced radiation warhead was designed to release within a restricted radius great quantities of neutrons which attacked the human central nervous system. The warhead would also reduce the heat and blast effects of conventional nuclear warheads, thereby reducing the destruction of buildings and collateral damage to civilian populated areas. Officials believed that the LANCE enhanced radiation warhead would deter a Soviet attack by threatening the U.S.S.R. with a weapon that could be used without destroying the Federal Republic of Germany in order to save it. Congress approved production funds for the new warhead on 13 July 1977, but President Jimmy Carter deferred production of the neutron warhead in April 1978.
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SPL self propelled launcher nuclear warhead liquid propellant gyroscope gyro INS clusterbomb cluster bomblet bomb anti propellant rod boster engine sustainer missile site airburst loader transporter fixed length boom
road wheels waterways ford c-130 c130 c 130 launch fixture launcher zero length LZL tripod hoist lance missile system hand wheel handwheel nuclear armed nuclear weapon system MGM 52 MGM52 MGM-52 Lance field artillery digital automatic computer M18 FADAC XM688E1 XM740 SPL XM752 bipropellant liquid propulsion system
unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine UDMH inhibited red fuming nitric acid IRFNA oxidizer hypergolic Monitor programmer missile guidance set AN/GJM-24 XO-2 XM22E1 AN/DJW48 M234 warhead M38 M40 Grenade
Lance Guided Missile, XMGM-52C
The Lance missile is 6.15 meters
long and 0.56 meters in diameter; it
weighs 1,488 kilograms with a
454-kilogram nonnuclear warhead
section and 1,236 kilograms with a
211-kilogram nuclear warhead section.
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1986 I worked as monitor programmer in the German Bundeswehr ... firing a Lance at N.A.M.F.I at Crete was one of the highlights with this weapon system.
I was a Platoon Leader for 2nd PLT B BTY 1BN 12FA at Ft.Sill 1976-1978 firing our missile at White Sands, NM Left the launcher at Mach 3 at it was gone! Still have the official photos of the launch and the men of my platoon.
What was the missile aligned with? Some fixed reference point? If so, how were those chosen and surveyed?
We were there same time. Started with 6/33 when activated 75 moved up to the group HQ. But was billeted 1/12 till eta in 78.
Lance kicked ass. Herzo, Giessen, Wiesbaden. Best time of my life.
Brings back memories of my tour in Germany 1978-81
84th USAFAD ‘85,‘86 The Adler bar was lit, Crete was a blast
My dad worked on Lance. 50th Missile Regiment. Royal Artillery. Menden West Germany 1977-1987
We did mods on the Lance in the mid 1980's in Germany. I was on the PDK (propellant drainage kit) team. The convoys were highly secured by MP's ... we had 2 to 4 platoons of MP's escorting our convoy. I remember giving the MP's their briefings & debriefs ... it was kinda funny how they responded to the potential dangers.
Awesome. The video is pretty dated and we did not have the tripod system when I was there in 1989-1991. I also did not know we could have loaded that into a plane or helicopter, though we did transfer our launchers by rail and yours truly had to drive that up onto the car and just trust the people guiding me. I would never trust my launcher with crossing water, though. Those seals were pretty old. But I was able to fire twice in Crete! I was in Hanau, 1st Fire, B-Btry, 1/32 FA.
That is one bad-ass missile system, outdated but still deadly.
Served as a Lance crewman in West Germany a fantastic piece of kit !
@spritz0 We were depot level maintenance; we did the mods & updates to the system. In the 2 years I worked at the depot level we went in the field once for 2 days & it was about 50 meters from our barracks. It was a big change for me since I started out as an 11 Bravo, Infantryman; as Infantry our homes were the field. It was certainly a good change to get the ASI of 55 Bravo. As individuals & teams we accomplished our objectives to bring about an end to the Cold War & the Soviet Union.
Amen, brother. Mission accomplished.
This has to be the slowest set up I have ever seen. I'm sure it's for training purposes...but dam...LOL. I was in the 3/79th FA in the Zoo, Germany A-Battery. If we did it this way...we never would have made live fire two years in a row in Crete! That was a fun TDY.
1st of the 333rd FA, Camp Pieri, outside of Wiesbaden in 1973. We were the first Lance unit in Europe.
I was waiting for Radar O'Riley to start the count down while Hawk eye and BJ crack jokes.
@StiviGun1 Hi, I was a Lance missile tech in the early eighties, this video is for training or a sales pitch. We had our system up and ready for fire before 1/10th of this video was played. Believe me, our crews were fast....any one cranking that slow would have been drug tested...LOL
Very interesting and by the way the Lance missile was seen in “Future War 198X”. How one man could set up and fire the Lance without other people to help out I’ll never know.
@AHirschenhofer I never dreamed that the posting of this old film would cause people to reconnect with each other.
This internet thing is kinna cool.
I was at the 83rd Det i Montabaur Germany from '86-'91, loved it there. Would've done my whole 20 years there if they would've let me.
Hello Floyd, very late I write, but I see Video now. I was there in this time 86-88 in German Army.
Wish you the best
LOVED IT. MY FIRST MOS. I KNOCKED MYSELF OUT PULLING OUT THE TRANSPORT LOCK PIN IT WAS STICKING, PULLED IT OUT CAUSE ON A MISSION BEING EVALUATED AND COLD KNOCKED MYSELF OUT. STATIONED AT HERZO 2/12TH CHARLIE COBRAS
That was you? I heard that story! A 2/12 "A TEAM" FA Herzo base 87-90
@@georgebou5497 whoa, that made it around 👍hehehehe 🤣
Herzo Base. 86-89. God bless all you guys 🙂
C Btry 6BN/33FA 1st Firing platoon 1983-1986, only thing I hated about the Lance’s SPL was hand cranking it to elevation, wore you out quick.
6/33rd FA Lance Ft. Sill here...
@robushly I was at the Zoo....3rd and 79th, A-btry...you?
@fischbach41st Wow! 7 or 8 years! That's too long for me & no room for promotions. Do you remember a SGT Jose Capati from the motorpool? He's a great guy! Funny as hell ... and the guy speaks more languages than I care to even know of. After I left Fischbach ... I went to school at Fort Eustis and became a crewchief on the AH-1 Cobra. Did you go PLDC in Germany or stateside?
@fischbach41st What years were you in Fischbach? Were you a 27Lima, 55Delta or 55Bravo? I left the 41st in 1986 ... I heard the depot was decommissioned in August 1995. I bet it was a real challenge/nightmare clearing all the bunkers. SSG Denny?
Background music courtesy of Charlie's Angels or Knight Rider.
I was in A Battery, 6/33 FA 1982-1984. (15D) I think there was also a Napalm round for the LANCE....
Nope, Neutron though.
Service Battery 6/33 FA 1983-1986
C Btry 6BN/33FA 1st firing platoon 1983-1986 (15D)
@fischbach41st You were there for awhile .... I don't remember any marriages taking place when I was there. I remember Elliss, Denny, Davis, Corderro, Neal, Bowers, Keener, Wheeler, Farmer, Okelly, Fritzke & Sartin. My mother was good friends of the Mcandless Family ... my older brother knew our CO. When you said you drove the wrecker ... I thought maybe you were one of the guys from the motorpool.
@fischbach41st LOL Yeah ... Farmer was a hell raiser. He didn't take crap from the ass kissers. I don't know if he got busted ... from what I understood a few people had it in for him. Welch was in Denny's squad, he seemed to be quiet & reserved ... I can't remember him ever pulling CQ or Guard Duty. It's interesting how I get the different duty stations mixed in my memories. Do you know what ever became of Farmer & Sartin?
This is the best evidence yet that during the "cold war" a noncom with an itchy finger could have given the order to start WWlll.
@fischbach41st Oh Yeah! I remember Welch ... he was on the 1st floor at the barracks.
@bill2379 Holy cow...BILL! Yea, I remember you...still have some of your camera shots while we were there brother. Find me on Face Book OK? Let me know...want to talk more, very nice surprise to hear from you old friend;c) Ma Halo, Hirsch
Canteens FULL? FULL SIR!
What unit are these guys from? It looks like the post barber shop must have burned down! They all have longer hair than Jimmy Page! They never would have passed inspection at my old unit, 1/333, Camp Pieri, Wiesbaden.
I was the only female 16D, then they decided range of art. Shell was too short and did not allow me to work my mos
Ah the 70's, were all the background music sounded the same as in a porn flick.
@faffaflunkie The "permissive action link" is a relatively recent invention. Google "Davey Crocket Warhead" or "small atomic demolition munition (sadm) " and you will see what I mean. I guarantee you the (nuclear) warheads of the vintage of this film had no "permissive action link". There is a reason why the "permissive action link" was invented and terrorists "getting their hands on one" (a nuclear weapon) wasn't it.
You are only partially correct. Actually, the SADM did have a PAL device--not terribly sophisticated, but it did have one. I was told in the nuclear weapons course at Redstone Arsenal that the Davy Crockett was the reason that PAL was invented--the story goes that DOD secretary McNamara, touring Europe, saw a bunch of German soldiers hovering around a Davy Crockett and asked whether one of them could launch a nuke if he was in a bad mood. The answer was "yes." The solution was PAL. And the Lance PAL was the most advanced in the Army inventory, for the simple reason that Lance was the last nuke developed for the Army.
8th USAFAD Steenwijk, Netherlands 86-88
@spritz0 Combat arms & their support elements all contributed to the security & welfare of our nation. We had the term CYA (Cover Your Ass) and I always believed if we all did this in a unified manor somebody else would not have to cover for me. I was not conveying any disrespect or disdain for MPs.
anybody out there from C Battery 1/12th from 81 to 84?
The helicopter at around 7:05 looks like a Russian Mi-8 but that can't be right is it a early model CH53, but thought only the Marines used them? Know the Germans have them too!!!
svc btry 1/80 FA
@boundtogetdown That was a joke...don't sue me plz...Oh what the hell...I'm broke anyways...LOL
@boundtogetdown It's out dated....and they never really showed you the important stuff...if they did...you'd be dead all ready;c)
Anyone from Herzo Base 84 -85 , 2/377
Yea was there. 86-88
@fischbach41st Oh Yeah! I remember Welch ... he was on the 1st floor at the barracks.