I recently bought a NIB copy of the Revell "Laser Battle Stations" model kit from 1984. There were a number of other kits released at the same time that all have connections to reports and concepts (see images) but these "laser battle stations" are a bit hard to place. They appear to be modeled...
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For some whatever reason, a timely article was pu(bli)shed by Sputnik, a Russian media, dealing with an "old" concept of non-nuclear space-based, orbiting kinetic space-to-ground weapon, sometimes described as "Rods from God"...
Lockheed "The Defender" SDI poster found on eBay.
Source:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Star-Wars-Lockheed-Poster-Killer-Satellites-Louis-De-Latorre-Original-/282065438198?hash=item41ac6905f6:g:W5IAAOSwzJ5XUv0a
Seller's description:
I've added a new article on Philip Bono's work on the Encyclopedia Astronautica at:
http://www.astronautix.com/b/bono.html
You may notice I've reorganized and reformatted the site, and am now (after some time) begun adding new and updated content. So please visit regularly to see what is new -...
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High Frontier was a private company that promoted space-based strategic defense against nuclear ICBMs. It was founded by Daniel O. Graham, a retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army who is often called the "father of SDI". This film promotes Graham's initiative: a...
List all weapons of SDI ?
- Braduskill
- X-Ray Laser
- NPB Neutral Particle Beam
- SBL Space Based Laser
- HVG HyperVelocity rail Gun
- GBL Ground Based Laser
- SBKKV Space Based Kinetic Kill Vehicle
- BP Brilliant Pebbles
January 24, 1989 WASHINGTON
A GUN powered by sound waves? It's not the fantasy of some hostile rock star. It's a concept under study by the Pentagon's ``star wars'' program. Noise cannons won't soon stock America's arsenals. They exist mainly in one inventor's mind. But he says sound...
Back in 1985 Aviation Week ran a piece of Boeing art with an article on a White House Aeronautics policy. The art depicted what I took to be a transport TAV in Boeing house colors. This attachment is a drawing I did when I saw that article and I'm posting it here to support my question. Does...
During the Strategic Defense Initiative days of the mid 1980s, one of the weapons technologies that was discussed was a Hyper Velocity Gun (HVG) placed in orbit to fire at inbound ICBMs and MIRVs.
Artist's conception (top) of USAF space-based hypervelocity launcher aka railgun, among kinetic...
I guess it is time to discuss this in detail as The blue origin new shephard is based on this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hm0tR96lAgw
also
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/DCX/
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This is from Seapower and Space, pg 241, by Norman Friedman. Does anyone have more information on this missile? According to the lexicon hosted on FAS.org it was originally known as Ballistic Intercept Missile.
I think that you remember these tiny stuff that Boeing, Rockwell and GD proposed to USAF under family of programs - "Air-Launched Sortie Vehicle", ALSV/“Advanced Military Spaceflight Capability Technology Identification”, AMSCI and so on.
Don't you have higher-resolution scans of these...
From http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/SpaceLVs/Slides/sld054.htm
"Two Rockwell TAV concepts from 1980. The Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle would have the capability to routinely cruise and maneuver into and out of the atmosphere -- either to gain rapid responsiveness for military low Earth orbit missions...
In the 90's exoatmosferic hypersonic airliners seemed near to enter production. 15 years before nobody talks about it. All that technology has been vanished after the NASP demonstrator program was cancelled?
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