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  1. S

    Military Concorde

    Curious to know if Concorde was ever considered in a military role, maybe as a recce aircraft or cruise missile platform? Would this have been feasible?
    • Stormbreaker
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    • alcm cold war electronic warfare elint great britain hypersonic nuclear battlefield raf strike command royal air force sigint signals intelligence strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance supersonic transport tactical reconnaissance
    • Replies: 142
    • Forum: Theoretical, Fake and Generic Projects
  2. Antonio

    McDonnell Douglas MD-2001 "Orient Express" Hypersonic Transport

    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?
    • Antonio
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    • 1980s cold war department of defense early 1990s hypersonic mcdonnell douglas nasa space race strategic defense initiative united states united states air force usaf
    • Replies: 82
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  3. Tuomasn

    Tupolev Tu-2000 & other VKS projects

    A thread for the Tupolev Tu-2000 aerospaceplane and also other VKS contenders. The Tu-2000A (first two pictures) was to be a 70-90 tonnes demonstrator of the actual SSTO spacecraft. The third pic shows a model that was displayed at the 1992 Mosaeroshow. I'm still not certain whether it's meant...
    • Tuomasn
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    • 1980s 1990s 2000s airliner cccp cold war hypersonic nuclear battlefield post-cold war russian federation single-stage-to-orbit soviet strategic missile troops soviet union space plane space weapons spaceplane ssto strategic bomber tupolev okb ussr
    • Replies: 56
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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