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Hermes II Rocket

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Post-war U.S. rocket for testing ramjets.

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Here y'all go, a rocket nobody asked for! Ugly rocket #1, the Hermes II

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The initial goals of Project Hermes included Hermes B, a  ramjet-powered cruise missile. Hermes B was soon split into a Hermes B-1 test vehicle and a Hermes B-2 operational missile. Hermes B-1 soon evolved into Hermes II. In June 1946 General Electric's contract was amended to include a two-stage missile which used a V-2 as its first stage, with a ramjet-powered supersonic cruise missile as the second stage.

Basically it's a V-2 with a giant ramjet sticking out the sides and even bigger fins, and it looks ugly.

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