AGM-80 Viper

The AGM-80 Viper was an air-to-surface missile developed by the Chrysler Corporation Missile Division in the 1960s for use by the United States Air Force. Based on the AGM-12 Bullpup, the program was cancelled early in trials. Viper was designed as a "self-guided standoff munition" for use in the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses ("Iron Hand") role.<ref name="Kn" /> The Viper, based on the AGM-12C/E Bullpup missile, was fitted with an inertial guidance system,<ref name="DS" /> and had a radar altimeter-based fuse to ensure an airburst of the weapon's bomblet payload.<ref name="Kn" /> It was developed in competition with the AGM-79 Blue Eye missile,<ref name="Comm" /> but was cancelled in the early 1970s, shortly after the start of flight tests of the prototype missiles,<ref name="DS"/> designated XAGM-80A.<ref name="Blake" />