strategic defense initiative

Hazegrey Art just released another CGI video this time covering a McDD competitor to the Titan 'Barbarian'... View: https://youtu.be/RvO31_Odpyg

HOTOL: Britain’s Spaceplane by Dan Sharp Now available for pre-order here: HOTOL: Britain's Spaceplane Tempest Books ISBN: 9781911704294 Format: Hardback Pages: 424 The start of Space Shuttle operations in 1981 marked a new era in spaceflight – with the five orbiters launching numerous...

I'm trying to track down references to an SDI test that I'm pretty sure used the MIRCL laser and SeaLite beam director. The test is mentioned here: https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/1106/zstar3.html I recall this being on the nightly newscasts. After much hype about SDI, little had occurred and...

Thanks to the ever-vigilant Mark Nankivil, we have a number of McDonnell-Douglas Advanced Design sketches to identify. I think I can figure out a few, but I thought it might be fun to let everyone have a go at this game. I'll post one design per post, so we can move them to the correct topics...

I recently bought a NIB copy of the Revell "Laser Battle Stations" model kit from 1984. There were a number of other kits released at the same time that all have connections to reports and concepts (see images) but these "laser battle stations" are a bit hard to place. They appear to be modeled...

Ok, this is a scenario I've been working on for a while now, so I'd like to hear other peoples' thoughts on it. It has some plot devices though (the Soviet Union not completely falling apart, Bush restarting the Cold War, etc), but I think it's realistic enough to seem sane from a glance. In...

Guys, I am not certain exactly as to where to place this news item, but the actual article is about the plugs that block the top parts of the Minuteman 3 siloes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/09/16/us-enhances-last-line-of-nuclear-missile-silo-defense/#70b81576f568 But...

Hi. For some whatever reason, a timely article was pu(bli)shed by Sputnik, a Russian media, dealing with an "old" concept of non-nuclear space-based, orbiting kinetic space-to-ground weapon, sometimes described as "Rods from God"...

http://thespacereview.com/article/3390/1 Black ops and the shuttle (part 3-1): Recovering spent HEXAGON reconnaissance satellites with the space shuttle by Dwayne A. Day Monday, December 11, 2017

Lockheed "The Defender" SDI poster found on eBay. Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Star-Wars-Lockheed-Poster-Killer-Satellites-Louis-De-Latorre-Original-/282065438198?hash=item41ac6905f6:g:W5IAAOSwzJ5XUv0a Seller's description:

I've added a new article on Philip Bono's work on the Encyclopedia Astronautica at: http://www.astronautix.com/b/bono.html You may notice I've reorganized and reformatted the site, and am now (after some time) begun adding new and updated content. So please visit regularly to see what is new -...

http://www.dailybreeze.com/obituaries/20160628/simon-ramo-1913-2016-aerospace-pioneer-and-icbm-chief-architect-was-the-r-in-trw

ERINT-1 ERINT (Extended Range Interceptor) was a part of the Strategic Defense Initiative’s Theater Missile Defense Program. The US Army contracted for a prototype missile and launch control system to defend against cruise missiles, aircraft, ballistic and tactical missiles. The capability was...

Published on Sep 27, 2012 High Frontier was a private company that promoted space-based strategic defense against nuclear ICBMs. It was founded by Daniel O. Graham, a retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army who is often called the "father of SDI". This film promotes Graham's initiative: a...

was around the in laws the other say and on the History channel, there was documentary about ufo and space weapons - one topic was supposedly Solar Warden project which was classified TS and above, under Reagans SDI proposal.....large orbital cylindrical spacecraft with high energy...

Hi, an old system to use Electron ray against space targets in 1986 in USA,designed by Sandia Labs and sponsored by Air Force Weapons Laboratory and DARPA. page 81...

List all weapons of SDI ? - Braduskill - X-Ray Laser - NPB Neutral Particle Beam - SBL Space Based Laser - HVG HyperVelocity rail Gun - GBL Ground Based Laser - SBKKV Space Based Kinetic Kill Vehicle - BP Brilliant Pebbles

January 24, 1989 WASHINGTON A GUN powered by sound waves? It's not the fantasy of some hostile rock star. It's a concept under study by the Pentagon's ``star wars'' program. Noise cannons won't soon stock America's arsenals. They exist mainly in one inventor's mind. But he says sound...

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a344791.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA237381&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA237382&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA237383&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf...

Some competitors to the Titan 34D7, which became the Titan IV, from the 1984 report 'Assessment of Candidate Expendable Launch Vehicles for Large Payloads'. I've not bothered copying the details of the Titan 34D7 as its' ultimate form is quite well known. Source...