Search results for query: Zero-length launch

Not to mention that the USAF would have absolutely zero interest in trying to figure out what the USN's requirements would be (not just length but all the other things). This program was stood up just as the X-51 effort concluded. That was also an AFRL partnership with NASA and others. AF set...

Interesting. Until you mentioned it, I hadn't thought about the similarity to ZELL. The early USAF "Zero Length Launch/Mat Landing (ZELMAL)" concept also relied on a flexible deck of sorts. An F-84 was supposed to land wheels-up on big rubber air mattress while snagging a cable with an arrester...

Hypersonic Ground Electric AB Engine by Alexander Bolonkin Abstract At the present time, rocket launch systems, flight passenger-transport and ground passenger systems have reached their peak of development. In the last 30 years there has been no increase in speed or reductions in trip costs...

This rather obscure Sweden weapon system, actually, quite interesting: It is the first Western shipborne anti-ship missile ever commissioned, and the only one Western SSM close to Soviet cotemporary analogues (like P-15 "Termit"). Interesting to note, that it seems to be essentially an...

I'd say the chance of that would be about zero. There is no search sensor for a hard kill active protection sensor and the tubes are full length for long range rockets not short range self defence interceptors. There are many good reasons for two types of rocket tubes. The upper tubes are...

It's hard to find detailed information, but an F-4B at 55,000 pounds, 100o.F Day, and 1450 feet is quoted. The catapult could be upgraded up to an A-3 at 78,000 pounds. An A-4 used a full load of less than 1,100 ft. One model ce-2 made repetitive launchs off a 28.000 pounds aircraft in excess...

Is that possible the missile is a modified variant of Stinger? Sine the Stinger is small enough to be modified and fit in to a LVTP-7 hull.

So you simply consider news reports that don't agree with your opinions as "market pitches or fluff and not relevant" - hmm, why does that remind me of online cries of "fake news"? By all means, if you have objectively documented sources that contradict the information provided under the links I...

USAF also experimented with an F-100 Super Sabre with similar Zero length launch system.

Does anybody have any more information on this weapon? Some information from Andrea Parsch's Directory of US Military Rockets and Missiles: https://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/r-14.html There is this image of a test rocket pod from the China Lake Alumni website: Does anyone have...

FEBRUARY 8, 2022 GEOMAGNETIC STORM AND RECENTLY DEPLOYED STARLINK SATELLITES On Thursday, February 3 at 1:13 p.m. EST, Falcon 9 launched 49 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Falcon 9’s second stage deployed the...

Let's look back way back into end 1950s begin 1960s During Cold War some Strategist and analyst predicted that in Conflict with East Block NATO Air Bases were vulnerably to enemy air strike by bomber and missile But concept of massive nuclear retaliation need a Strike Force that instantaneous...

The problem with this spec is it includes two very different requirements: STOL and long endurance. STOL aircraft tend to be high drag and therefore difficult to keep in the air for extended periods. Also this aircraft would need to operate from the LHD/LHA platform which does not have much...

Artist's depiction of McDonnell Douglas 33-Foot-Diameter Space Station Leading to a Space Base from 1969. Source: http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=2178

Hyperbole like that does not help your case. The efficiency/payload gains from flock refuelling are exactly the same as the gains from stage refuelling. Consider this thought experiment: Tie all flock members together with very long pieces of wire. As you use them up, drop that wire so they can...

...could use airfield services and still survive a surprise nuclear strike. Germany put a lot of interest into the rocket-boosted, Zero-Length Launch (ZELL) F-104G for the same reason. The plan was to launch the higher-performance F-104s from dispersed concrete stands with maximum fuel and a...

Interesting not in Volume-3, part II, page Ii-20/22 on the functional reason(s) NASP funding was continued even after the work was zeroed out by OMB for NASA. "The focal point of exploring such ideas (note: advanced aircraft projects) was the National Aerospace Plane (NASP--or Hypersonic...

The operational procedures established that the Ohka should be launched from between 16 and 37 km of distance to the target and at between 6,000 and 8,200 m of altitude. Following its flying profile, the Mitsubishi G4M2e Model 24J bombers that carried them were usually detected by the radars of...

The Crusader needed some rework to launch from Clemenceau class carriers. Long story: the J-57 was big and bulky resulting in along fuselage and then, even with the variable incidence wing the Crusader landed too fast - you couldn't raise the nose too much otherwise the rear fuselage would have...

Regioliner R92/R122 Type: Family of 95/125-passenger short/medium range transports. Program: MoU signed March 1991; formal launch expected October 1992; first flight of R92 expected Autumn 1995; expected in service at end of 1996: R122 expected in service about Autumn 1998. Customers...