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On 24th October 1974 a C-5 air dropped a Minuteman I. Here's the image. Somewhere I have an animation....Interesting information can be found in these two AIAA papers (actually on air drop of launch vehicles, not ICBMs)http://mae.ucdavis.edu/faculty/sarigul/aiaa2001-4619.pdf andhttp://www.airlaunchllc.com/AIAA-2005-0621.pdfActually, the affair started with Project Strat-X in 1967-68 when McNamara asked for ideas on future strategic systems to counter the growing strenght of Sovet ICBM forces (and of more spefic menaces, like orbital weapons, FOBS and MOBS, attaching from behind the US early warning network facing north). Best known effect of Strat-X was the ULBM project, leading to Tridenti, but there was a lot of other activities, like some creative ICBM basing options. One was air launch, others was like using little submarines in the Great Lakes, another was Nemesis, deep basing in sealed tunnels with automatic launch. Andreas Parsch has something on this, I suppose. All of those schemes, and new ones, resurfaced during the MX-basing debate. There is a specific study by the now defuct US Congress Office of Technological Assesment. Try Google "MX basing mode", Carnegie edu (f I remeber well) has a complete PDF collection of OTA studies online.
On 24th October 1974 a C-5 air dropped a Minuteman I. Here's the image. Somewhere I have an animation....
Interesting information can be found in these two AIAA papers (actually on air drop of launch vehicles, not ICBMs)
http://mae.ucdavis.edu/faculty/sarigul/aiaa2001-4619.pdf and
http://www.airlaunchllc.com/AIAA-2005-0621.pdf
Actually, the affair started with Project Strat-X in 1967-68 when McNamara asked for ideas on future strategic systems to counter the growing strenght of Sovet ICBM forces (and of more spefic menaces, like orbital weapons, FOBS and MOBS, attaching from behind the US early warning network facing north). Best known effect of Strat-X was the ULBM project, leading to Tridenti, but there was a lot of other activities, like some creative ICBM basing options. One was air launch, others was like using little submarines in the Great Lakes, another was Nemesis, deep basing in sealed tunnels with automatic launch. Andreas Parsch has something on this, I suppose. All of those schemes, and new ones, resurfaced during the MX-basing debate. There is a specific study by the now defuct US Congress Office of Technological Assesment. Try Google "MX basing mode", Carnegie edu (f I remeber well) has a complete PDF collection of OTA studies online.
