Re: The return of Buran?

[Andre Lieven[_3_]]

On Apr 16, 3:27*am, Pat Flannery > wrote:
> Andre Lieven wrote:
> > "Russian officials were concerned about a perceived ability of the US
> > Space Shuttle to make a sudden dive into the atmosphere to drop
> > bombs on Moscow, despite the fact that such a scenario was
> > physically impossible.[2]"
>
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_program
>
> > The footnote for this item [2] is:
>
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7738489.stm
>
> > "Years after a sceptical Pentagon had given up on the shuttle, even
> > as a delivery truck for spy satellites, the Russian officials
> > continued
> > whispering to journalists that the US orbiter had a secret capability
> > -
> > to make an undetected "dive" into the Earth's atmosphere and
> > suddenly glide over Moscow dropping nuclear bombs.
>
> > Never mind that such a scenario was not supported by physics or
> > by common sense."
>
> Comrade! Buran bomber with BOR-4 type MARVs!:
> http://www.buran.fr/bourane-buran/img/bor_bur.jpg

Aircraft carriers in space ! It's The People's Battlestar...

Andre