During the Cold War, the United States Postal Service and the US Navy experimented with delivering mail via Regulus missile. More from Military & Defense During the Cold War, the United States ...

The USS Growler patrolled the seas on top-secret missions off the coast of Russia during the Cold War. Commissioned in 1958, the USS Growler carried Regulus II sea-to-surface missiles armed with ...

Commissioned in 1958, the USS Growler carried Regulus II sea-to-surface missiles armed with nuclear warheads. The looming threat of the submarine's firepower acted as a deterrent to prevent other ...

And so the USPS and the DoD worked together and in the summer of 1959, fired a missile called Regulus from the U.S.S. Barbero (PDF) to a naval station 100 miles away in Mayport, Florida.

USS Long Beach was equipped with a variety of weapons systems. She was initially slated to carry the Regulus nuclear cruise missile, but was later equipped with four launch tubes for the Polaris ...

Cost of developing Matador and Regulus, with practically the same range, speed and bang: $200 million apiece. Thor V. Jupiter Last November, as a curb on interservice missile rivalry, Defense ...

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Growler was on alert, ready to fire its nuclear missiles, and could only receive messages. If a false message was sent to the sub, they'd have no way of ...

Notably, the Halibut was the first submarine to be designed with the capacity to launch guided missiles, specifically, the ...