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![]() Derek Lyons wrote: The technical problems with the A5 certainly helped it along the path to being a recon machine, but the surface Navy was already getting out of the strategic nuke business anyhow. The Vigilante was only one of many schemes floated about get the Navy into the strategic offensive, but the sucess and simplicity of Polaris compared to the other (mostly Rube Goldbergesque, many of dubious safety) systems resulted in them being abandoned wholesale. Wanna see something strange? I stumbled on this when I was looking for photos of the Vigilante...you take the bomb and fuel tanks out of the tubular bomb bay, and stick a third engine in there instead...then you hang some Super Falcon/Phoenix missiles on it and.... behold! The Vigilante interceptor!: http://www.vectorsite.net/ava56.jpg The aerodynamics of those added intakes look kinda iffy at high angles of attack. No reply from the website about the crash remains yet. Pat |
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