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Scott Ferrin wrote: One of the few books from that era that I still have around :-) I was going through my old collection of "Soviet Military Power" yearly reports last night- you remember them; they were published by Military-Industrial Complex Press back under Reagan. ;-) Pat |
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Scott Ferrin wrote: I liked the part about the pilot's head being exposed to space. Like a space-going WWI biplane. It needs a big fold-up ring sight like on a WW II anti-aircraft gun. Come to think of it, it also needs a big anti-aircraft gun; I'm thinking a 20 MM Vulcan rotary cannon here. With tracer rounds. Range would be effectively unlimited, if you could figure out the gravitational deflection of the projectiles...of course, any projectiles that missed the target would go into strange orbits and be a hazard for months or years to come....we need a weapon that doesn't cause recoil, isn't deflected by gravity, and won't clutter space with unexploded 20 MM shells....and I think we both know just what that weapon should be...the Space Cruiser needs a "LASER BEAM"!!! You'd think they'd be a little bit concerned about micro-sized impacts though. I say they should have just reinforced the nose and started ramming things with it. Mr. Commie would have soiled his red drawers when he saw this thing bearing down on his Uragon space fighter, spitting coherent photonic fire and with its diamond drill nose spinning at 2000 rpm! :-) Pat |
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote: Delurking, but what's the machine half out of the picture at upper left? Yours truly wondered that also, so I dug out my "Space Satellites" book- and I think it is either the Japanese GMS/Himawari geosynchronous meteorological satellite or one of our GOES geosynchronous satellites of the same type (the designs are nearly identical)...as to how the Space Cruiser got clean up to GEO is a very good question. To me the whole thing smells of an attempt by Mr. Commie to control the weather... probably by Teslanic means...who will be safe when the very rain is fluoridated? But that's just the way your hard core commie works, Group Captain... :-( Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote: Jonathan Silverlight wrote: Delurking, but what's the machine half out of the picture at upper left? Yours truly wondered that also, so I dug out my "Space Satellites" book- and I think it is either the Japanese GMS/Himawari geosynchronous meteorological satellite or one of our GOES geosynchronous satellites of the same type (the designs are nearly identical) Looky what I found: http://dbx.cr.chiba-u.jp/TextBook/EnvRS/kiso/gms_bw.gif Looks like it's payback time for all those 1970s Japanese car imports, doesn't it? If there's one thing I like less in my rainwater than fluoride, it's sake! :-) Pat |
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:53:36 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: Scott Ferrin wrote: One of the few books from that era that I still have around :-) I was going through my old collection of "Soviet Military Power" yearly reports last night- you remember them; they were published by Military-Industrial Complex Press back under Reagan. ;-) Pat Yep. Did you ever have the Russian War Machine or US War Machine? I had two editions of the latter. |
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:26:11 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: Yours truly wondered that also, so I dug out my "Space Satellites" book- and I think it is either the Japanese GMS/Himawari geosynchronous meteorological satellite or one of our GOES geosynchronous satellites of the same type (the designs are nearly identical)...as to how the Space Cruiser got clean up to GEO is a very good question. The Space Cruiser is boosted to GEO by a Centaur derivative, both initially carried to orbit in a shuttle payload bay. |
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Scott Ferrin wrote: Yep. Did you ever have the Russian War Machine or US War Machine? I had two editions of the latter. I had the Russian one, yes (Russia is my specialty, as some may have guessed by now). A really fun one I still have is "The Secret Cuban Missile Crises Documents" published by the CIA, no less...what makes that one interesting is noting where our intelligence estimates were correct, and where we missed the boat.... and we made a major slip; we thought that they had "Kennel" short range jet-powered cruise missiles with conventional warheads on Cuba for use against approaching ships- they fessed up in 1992 that what _they_ actually had were short range Kennels....and "Frog" unguided artillery rockets with nuclear warheads for use against approaching ships and landed invasion forces, with the carte blanche right to use them against any surprise invasion without getting Moscow's okay. So if we had tried to invade we would have come under nuclear attack, taken massive casualties, and almost certainly ended up in W.W. III within a few hours. Considering that the Joint Chiefs were in favor of a invasion, things got way too close to the edge in this matter. As the crises grew to its apex, a recon jet snapped this photo of six of the Frog missile trucks parked under a tree: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/46.jpg But we still had no clue until the Soviets told us in 1992 that the nuclear warheads for those missiles were already in Cuba at the time of the crises. In fact, The first mention of Frog missiles being in Cuba at all occurs in summery point number 7 of supplement 7 to the "Joint Evaluation Of Soviet Missile Threat In Cuba" two days after that photo was taken. Summery point number 9 of the same document is "Despite Krushchev's statement to Mr. Knox of 24 October, we still lack positive evidence that nuclear weapons are deployed in Cuba." in this case, Mr. K wasn't just banging his shoe. Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote: It does now, but not when I wrote that- did the server have to update? No. I suspect your problem was that your computer had archived the website, and didn't bother to refresh it when you dialed it up again. I've noticed that several times on several PC's... especially with Hobbyspace. Whenever I go there, I invariably see the webpage as it was last downloaded... NOT as it currently is. Just hit the refresh button, and you'll be fine. Anyway, thanks for putting that stuff up- I've been wanting to find out more about this gizmo since it showed up in the book "Advanced Technology Warfare" back in 1985. That was one of my early sources as well (along with "Warplanes of the future," IIRC). There's some stuff there that just doesn't make sense... like launching the SC into orbit off the back of a 747, without any additional boosters. Wouldn't even come *close*. However, the next article will have drawings of the 747/Titan-derived booster planned for SC, along with the SC/Centaur GEO booster from the Shuttle. |
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On 25 Dec 2004 13:52:38 -0800, "
wrote: Pat Flannery wrote: It does now, but not when I wrote that- did the server have to update? No. I suspect your problem was that your computer had archived the website, and didn't bother to refresh it when you dialed it up again. I've noticed that several times on several PC's... especially with Hobbyspace. Whenever I go there, I invariably see the webpage as it was last downloaded... NOT as it currently is. Just hit the refresh button, and you'll be fine. Anyway, thanks for putting that stuff up- I've been wanting to find out more about this gizmo since it showed up in the book "Advanced Technology Warfare" back in 1985. That was one of my early sources as well (along with "Warplanes of the future," IIRC). There's some stuff there that just doesn't make sense... like launching the SC into orbit off the back of a 747, without any additional boosters. Wouldn't even come *close*. However, the next article will have drawings of the 747/Titan-derived booster planned for SC, along with the SC/Centaur GEO booster from the Shuttle. There was a Lockheed aircraft in both of those books listed as a "Mach 5 methane powered aircraft". Come to think of it the 2nd book I'm thinking of maybe have been "Future Figters". IIRC it was a smallish book with a front view of the XFV-12. If we're talking about the same book do you have any info on the Mach 5 aircraft and the Lockheed flying aircraft carrrier? |
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