space weapons

  1. sferrin

    Chinese lunar missile base

    Trying to nuke someone on Earth from the moon would be about as inefficient as you could do it. We'd see them coming for days.
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    • icbm moon moonbase people's liberation army people's liberation army air force people's republic of china post-cold war space weapons
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Military
  2. Triton

    US planned to nuke the moon

    "Confirmed: US planned to nuke the moon" Published: 26 November, 2012, 21:13 Source: https://rt.com/usa/news/us-moon-nuclear-project-631/
    • Triton
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    • cccp cold war lunar missile gap moon project a119 space age space probes space race space weapons united states usaf ussr
    • Replies: 70
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  3. flateric

    OKB-155 (Mikoyan) ASAT

    R-7 launched ASAT system (ca.1958-1959) from MiG museum. Photos (1,2) (c) Vadim Lukashevich (www.buran.ru), (3,4) (c) Sergey Kuznetcov aka Pilot (www.pilot.strizhi.info)
    • flateric
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    • asat cold war orbital denial soviet strategic missile troops soviet strategic rocket forces soviet union space weapons ussr
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  4. The Artist

    Boeing TAV - was this speculation or a serious concept?

    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...
  5. bobbymike

    Chinese Say Space Weapons Inevitable

    From spacewar.com: China commander says space weapons inevitable: state media Beijing (AFP) Nov 2, 2009 A top China air force commander has called the militarisation of space an "historical inevitability", state media said Monday, marking an apparent shift in Beijing's opposition to...
    • bobbymike
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    • 2010s 2020s anti-satellite asat cold war ii late 2000s people's liberation army people's liberation army air force people's republic of china post-cold war space weapons war on terror
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: The Bar
  6. Triton

    Orbital Hyper Velocity Gun (HVG) - Rail Gun

    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...
    • Triton
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    • 1980s ballistic missile defense cold war space age space race space weapons strategic defense initiative united states air force
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  7. XP67_Moonbat

    Chinese Space Program

    An article on pre-Shenzhou studies and the Shenzhou project. Check it out: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/launchpad/1921/story-7.htm You gotta love this illustration. Here you go. Moonbat
    • XP67_Moonbat
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    • anti-satellite asat china china manned space agency china manned space engineering office china national space administration lunar probes lunar robots moon people's liberation army people's republic of china prc space space weapons
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  8. shadowcat48li

    Project Orion / Project Daedalus

    I am looking for information on Project Orion/Daedalus[British name for roughly the same thing] this was an early nuclear powered spacecraft that used focused nuclear explosions for thrust.
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    • air defense command british interplanetary society cold war deep space probes general atomics great britain nasa nuclear battlefield nuclear rockets space age space race space weapons strategic air command united states united states air force
    • Replies: 148
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  9. airrocket

    1980's McDonnell TAV Concepts

    MCD MOL Plans
    • airrocket
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    • 1980s anti-satellite cold war department of defense mcdonnell douglas nasa space race space weapons strategic defense initiative united states united states air force
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  10. Michel Van

    USA military lunar outpost: Project Horizon, LUNEX ...

    here some Link and PDF about USA military outpost on Moon Project Horizon (ABMA now MSFC at NASA) http://www.astronautix.com/data/horizon.pdf size 1.3 MB http://www.astronautix.com/craft/hortpost.htm http://www.astronautix.com/articles/propter1.htm...
  11. overscan (PaulMM)

    Secret Projects: Military Space Technology by Bill Rose

    I must preface this first look review by saying that, while I'm interested in space technology, its not my speciality, so I'm approaching this book from this angle. Bill Rose has put together a well written and nicely illustrated book on various military space projects. Its 192 pages long and...
    • overscan (PaulMM)
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    • anti-satellite cold war early 21st century electronic warfare elint great britain late 20th century nasa photographic reconnaissance post-cold war signals intelligence soviet union space weapons spaceplane ssto strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance third reich united states world war ii
    • Replies: 35
    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  12. flateric

    USAF ASD 1986 FUTURE STRATEGIC AERONAUTICAL MISSION ANALYSIS

    [1986]...mission analysis that was conducted by a large number of Air Force and industry organizations. The purpose was to formulate and understand the alternatives for future strategic aeronautical weapon systems and identify promising system concepts to follow those currently in the inventory...
    • flateric
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    • aeronautical systems division air force systems command boeing cold war hypersonic late 1980s lockheed mcdonnell douglas nuclear battlefield rockwell international rockwell space transportation systems division space weapons strategic air command strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance supersonic tactical nuke united states united states air force world war iii
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  13. boxkite

    Chelomey / NPO Mashinostroyeniya LKS

    Maybe Chelomei’s space interceptor ... ? http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lks.htm
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    • anti-satellite cccp chelomei bureau cold war npo mashinostroyenia soviet strategic missile troops soviet union space age space race space weapons strategic defence tskbm design bureau ussr
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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