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  1. A Tentative Fleet Plan

    Naval Weapons Center China Lake Advanced Bomb Family

    View: https://youtu.be/q3fqFuhprKs From the 50:57 mark onwards. Otherwise hard to find any other information on this project online, as far as I can tell judging by the video, the program started in the 1970s, and according to this 1992 Rocketeer article (link only, the file is too large to...
  2. quellish

    Sandia Extended Range Bomb (ERB) concept

    In the late 1970s Sandia explored the design of a maneuvering glide bomb, the Extended Range Bomb: "Aerodynamic Design of an Extended Range Bomb" https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/3.57916 "TIGER -- A technology to improve the delivery capability of nuclear bombs and the survivability of the...
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    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  3. sublight_

    Sandia Labs shows GPS-free quantum-based wayfinding device

    https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2021/10/22/this-device-could-usher-in-gps-free-navigation/ Looks like a nice solution to the jamming problem, for those that cant astro-navigate.
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    • Forum: The Bar
  4. flateric

    Sandia Lab's Nuclear-Powered UAV Project Leaked?

    while reading of Mr. Nozette unfortunate ending... http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/03/sandia_drone.html http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/sand-uav.pdf
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  5. Graham1973

    Hughes/Sandia - Pioneer Mars Orbiter (1974)

    Concerned about the cost of Viking 1 & 2, NASA looked at lower cost alternatives for the 1977 & 1979 Mars launch opportunities . One of the proposed missions was to use a modified version of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter to carry six RTG powered penetrators to Mars. Once the spacecraft entered...
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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