XSSM-N-6A Rigel Cruise Missile

Rigel was begun by the US Navy in 1946. The aim was to produce a solid-rocket boosted, twin-ramjet powered, ship-launched supersonic cruise missile to attack shore targets at a range of 930 km (500 nm).

Production missiles would have been equipped with two wingtip-mounted Marquardt 71 cm (28 in) ramjets and four solid rocket boosters.

This model represents a Rigel concept missile that was sketched up but never built.​

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It has (4) 24mm motors located in the booster pods. At burnout a fuse lights the 24mm sustainer and the booster self ejects. At sustainer ejection, the motor pops from its mount and deploy (2) 18" parachutes, stored in the Ramjet pods.​