Early Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle studies

[bobbymike]

Unbelievable 64 years ago. To repeat 64 years ago!!

 

[publiusr]

People then had a lust for technical progress and prowess you only see in Asia now.

 

[martinbayer]

People may have had a lust for many things back then, but the deciding factor was that the USG at the time actually decided to bankroll it. I am at a loss as to how to rekindle that communal circumstance in the current environment with the prevailing attitude of social navel gazing.

 

[Byeman]

People then had a lust for technical progress and prowess you only see in Asia now.

It is still there, just not for items you are interested in.
This was a technology that had little use at the time.
Why spend all that money when hacking and toy drones can achieve results and be funded ordinary people.

 

[RanulfC]

Keep in mind we actually had a "accidental" hypersonic missile in the '80s/early '90s

Hypersonics Is a technological talking point more than anything else these days

Randy

 

[Forest Green]

Keep in mind we actually had a "accidental" hypersonic missile in the '80s/early '90s

Hypersonics Is a technological talking point more than anything else these days

Randy

Well that was an air-breathing hypersonic missiles. Fairly sure hypersonic missiles in general have existed for a long time. Almost any ballistic missile with a range of 500km or more... Pershing I/II... AIM-54... Sprint.... etc.

And technically the hypersonic ASALM flight was 1970s, if that's what you were thinking of.

ASALM - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[bobbymike]

Keep in mind we actually had a "accidental" hypersonic missile in the '80s/early '90s

Hypersonics Is a technological talking point more than anything else these days

Randy

Well that was an air-breathing hypersonic missiles. Fairly sure hypersonic missiles in general have existed for a long time. Almost any ballistic missile with a range of 500km or more... Pershing I/II... AIM-54... Sprint.... etc.

And technically the hypersonic ASALM flight was 1970s, if that's what you were thinking of.

ASALM - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Probably in today’s parlance (or my personal proclivities) I think of “hypersonics” in two categories true air breathers (can be rocket assisted) or unpowered BGVs (again rocket boosted) but that have distinct aero-principles that allow significant manoeuvring inside the atmosphere.

 

[publiusr]

Hypersonics—-a flight regime of religious fanatics who seek the embrace of heat-soaked airframes (on ascent) over pop-up trajectories….a form of self-abuse like tribal scarification.

For those who present with such symptoms, please cut away the blue clothing and inject 500 cc’s of Thorazine.

 

[Byeman]

Hypersonics—-a flight regime of religious fanatics who seek the embrace of heat-soaked airframes (on ascent) over pop-up trajectories….a form of self-abuse like tribal scarification.

For those who present with such symptoms, please cut away the blue clothing and inject 500 cc’s of Thorazine.

Pot calling the kettle black. You have your own false god that you follow.

 

[publiusr]

Just the one true church of the heavy lift ;>

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

Boeing Boost Glide Weapon, 1958, from USAF FOIA library

Could this be Boeing Model 812-1, meant for carriage by their Model 804-4 proposal for WS-110?

 

[Forest Green]

Turns out Alpha Draco had an integrated rocket as well as the booster. I assume the separate rocket is the TX-20 and the integrated one is the TX-30/XM-30.

Alpha Draco - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[quellish]

Boeing Boost Glide Weapon, 1958, from USAF FOIA library

Could this be Boeing Model 812-1, meant for carriage by their Model 804-4 proposal for WS-110?

IT appears to be part of the RoBo project, the report is circa 1957-1959. They say it could be manned or unmanned, they propose both liquid and solid fuel boosters all for ground launch. There is a "KS" or "SR"? -126 designation in there (first two letters are consistently illegible). There is mention of an ARDC System Requirement 126.

https://efoia.cce.af.mil/app/AddAttachment.aspx?docid=6424&ispaldoc=F

 

[flateric]

I'm not sure about ID though

Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Re-Entry Vehicle Model C.1950 Werner Karl Dahm Estate — AGENT GALLERY CHICAGO

A hypersonic wind tunnel model that has the distinct tapered nose cone of a hypersonic vehicle with added fins. Most likely an early re-entry vehicle design used for testing and the tip of the nose cone comes off for adapting various shapes for study. Precision machined steel to exacting specs and f

agentgallery.com

 

[Forest Green]

Alpha Draco Paved The Way In The Late 1950s For Future Hypersonic Boost-Glide Vehicles

McDonnell's work in the late 1950s, while often overlooked, was critical in the development of hypersonic boost-glide vehicles.

www.twz.com

 

[Forest Green]

So I found this old document kicking around (interesting stuff at p38):

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb249/doc05.pdf

 

[sferrin]

Peacekeeper:

 

[Forest Green]

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The link is talking about such a system on a 100g MaRV in the late '60s though.

 

[sferrin]

The link is talking about such a system on a 100g MaRV in the late '60s though.

Right. I'm just saying they actually used (it seems) such a system on Peacekeeper.

 

[Archibald]

Model 122 many iterations - BGRV, as flown on top of an Atlas-F rocket in 1966-1968 ?