icbm

Just posted by the San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) Archives on Flickr, a 1962 General Dynamics Astronautics film detailing the ORCA Weapons System / Project Sunrise, a containerized / encapsulated ocean floor-based ballistic missile (ICBM). The only mention of the concept I was able to...

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.

http://atomic-skies.blogspot.ie/2012/07/nukes-on-ice.html (Drawings and pictures at link)

ONERA missiles and rockets from an old 1960s magazine:

Silo costs 1960s. What were the Titan 2 silo costs (1960$)? What were the 1960 Blue Streak silo cost estimates? How did they compare? How did they compare with Polaris costs?

Whilst looking for information on studies for 156" solid rockets applied to ICBMs, I came across this presentation on ATK's large motors. Buried in there is the notion of an ICBM using a 260" solid rocket motor for the first stage of an ICBM - no mention of what the second stage is, other than...

Who can flesh this lot out? 1954: Sperry/UK, licence from Sperry/US: intended for (to be) Blue Streak. Bracknell clean room. Abandoned for: 3/57: Elliott licence from Bosch Arma (ATLAS kit). Rochester clean room. B Streak died 13/4/60 but INS work continued for Blue Steel. 1957: Ferranti...

From what appears to be a book abstract by Maurice F. Crommie. His website has this in his resume Dec 1962 - Sept 1971 Consulting Engineer, Senior Scientist and Project Leader in strategic nuclear weapon design at General Electric, McDonald Douglas, Stanford Research Institute, Conductron...

Very sketchy and incomplete! DM-14 - Nike-Hercules DM-15 -- Nike Zeus A? (sketchy) DM-15S --NIKE-ZEUS ASAT DM-15X2 -- Nike-EX. On 1 JAN 1967, was redesignated SPARTAN. DM-18 -- Thor DM-18A -- Thor Agena A? DM-19 -- Thor Delta? DM-20 -- Skybolt DM-21 -- Thor Agena B?

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/boeing-proposes-missile-with-global-reach/19405693 "The company says it has a missile concept ready, and that if it gets the go-ahead and funding from the Pentagon, the weapon could be ready for fielding within 30 months. The missile, which was developed...

Mystery UK Missile? Document referring to 1955 talk/discussions in Australia in which it was suggested that a total of twenty-five rounds be allocated as backup and practice rounds to support seven nuclear tipped hard site (silo based) operational missiles to be deployed by the Australians...

This story scares the bejeebees out of me. :o The MMIII has been refurbished almost completely with new components. If this is system wide the US has no land based strategic deterrent. I have been posting far and wide on the web about replacing the MMIII for both industrial base needs and to...

In an article for Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, on UK launchers, Nicholas Hill comments on the slow development of Blue Streak compared to its US and Soviet counterparts. He says 'A figure of seventeen months is often quoted for the time from inception to first flight for the...

from The Common Aero Vehicle: Space Delivery System Of The Future George Richie, ANSER AIAA Space Technology Conference & Exposition 28-30 Sept. 1999 Albuquerque, NM from A Common Aero Vehicle (CAV) - Model, Description, and Employment Guide Terry H Phillips, Schafer Corporation

More Than 23,000 Nukes Found in 14 Nations, Report Says Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 There are an estimated 23,360 nuclear weapons stockpiled in 14 nations, with the great majority held by Russia and the United States, two nonproliferation experts said in a report issued this week (see GSN, Oct...

Russian military to get new ICBMs, nuclear submarines MOSCOW: Russia's Armed Forces are to receive 30 new ground and sea-launched ballistic missiles, three nuclear submarines, and an assortment of other weapons, the Russian president said on Thursday. Dmitry Medvedev said the list would also...

This is a new one for me. Anyone else heard of it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_ICBM http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/aresicbm.htm

1). UR-700K 2). UR-700 with RO-31 nuclear rocket engine (250 t to LEO) all images (c) NPOMash please don't repost anywhere 3). UR-700 compared to N1 and Saturn V

A couple of interesting documents emerged recently on DTIC regarding some hints of what near future long range US ballistic missile could look like. Dates are late 90's ealrly 2000's. Here: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA318768 non-nuclear, manouvering SLBM warhead...

In 1959 G.K.C.Pardoe, Chief Coordinator/balistic missiles at DeHavilland Propellers Ltd. made several proposals to use the Blue Streak as the basis for a sattelite transport system. - The first shown would combine the Blue Streak with a solid propellant second stage, where the payload would have...