On 3/1/2010 5:17 AM, Me wrote:

Just reread the first comment. There was nothing on the T-II's that
was used for the T-IV's.
Aside from the pad issues preventing use of the decommissioned T-I's,
I never found a reason why there wasn't an Titan-I SLV. I guess
Atlas had all the missions covered.


Given the timeframe of their military decommissioning, one could have
seen them being used as target carriers for the Nike-Zeus ABM program,
to give it something realistic moving at ICBM velocities to attempt to
get in kill distance of.
If you go to the 4:20 point in this YouTube video, you can see them
doing tests of a model Dyna-Soar/Titan I that is being elevated out of
its launch silo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkQnO...eature=related
I noticed that the Titans down at the Boneyard seem to have both their
first and second stage engines removed; did any of their engines get
recycled for Titan IV?

Pat