Soviet space interceptor missile

I was digging around for that space station design and came across this
photo of a full scale mock-up of a Soviet space-to-space homing missile:
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/prog...iet/ener_4.jpg
Note the location of the four maneuvering thrusters well ahead of the
CG, so that it can't move straight sideways the way the Brilliant
Pebbles interceptor we ground hover tested could.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:

I was digging around for that space station design and came across this
photo of a full scale mock-up of a Soviet space-to-space homing missile:
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/prog...iet/ener_4.jpg
Note the location of the four maneuvering thrusters well ahead of the
CG, so that it can't move straight sideways the way the Brilliant
Pebbles interceptor we ground hover tested could.

If I read the captions right - it's actually a two stage vehicle
that's illustrated. (Item 2 is 'booster' while item 5 is 'head
stage'.) Of course, that assumes that the technichal translation is
in fact correct, often a problem with Russian material IIRC.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:21:41 GMT, (Derek Lyons)
wrote:

If I read the captions right - it's actually a two stage vehicle
that's illustrated. (Item 2 is 'booster' while item 5 is 'head
stage'.) Of course, that assumes that the technichal translation is
in fact correct, often a problem with Russian material IIRC.

....No ****. Where as Spanish needs to be taught during all years of
the curriculum with equal attention paid to the language mechanics and
the cultural aspects so as to keep the students from being bored,
Russian needs the cultural aspects so non-Russians can have a clue as
to why Western-derived terminological descriptors wind up with the
oddball versions the Russians apply to them.

OM
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