strategic defense initiative

Conical ABM missile made quite a stir in the 80's gossip's then quickly faded from vogue. Wish I knew if any ever went into service and what became of them. Seems a few made to to museums I would love to pick one up from a remote desert aerospace boneyard....

Artist's impression of American Rocket Company (Amroc) Industrial Launch Vehicle (ILV) 1 being launched from Vandenburg Air Force Base. Source: "Amroc tests continue" Flight International June 13, 1987 http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1987/1987%20-%200756.html

Back in 1985 Aviation Week ran a piece of Boeing art with an article on a White House Aeronautics policy. The art depicted what I took to be a transport TAV in Boeing house colors. This attachment is a drawing I did when I saw that article and I'm posting it here to support my question. Does...

During the Strategic Defense Initiative days of the mid 1980s, one of the weapons technologies that was discussed was a Hyper Velocity Gun (HVG) placed in orbit to fire at inbound ICBMs and MIRVs. Artist's conception (top) of USAF space-based hypervelocity launcher aka railgun, among kinetic...

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MCD MOL Plans

I've heard about a rocket craft hovering in a hangar and laser pointing an outside target as a systems/targeting demonstration, anybody have more info on this?

From Missiles And Rockets 9th January 1961.

I guess it is time to discuss this in detail as The blue origin new shephard is based on this http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hm0tR96lAgw also http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/DCX/

This is from Seapower and Space, pg 241, by Norman Friedman. Does anyone have more information on this missile? According to the lexicon hosted on FAS.org it was originally known as Ballistic Intercept Missile.

I think that you remember these tiny stuff that Boeing, Rockwell and GD proposed to USAF under family of programs - "Air-Launched Sortie Vehicle", ALSV/“Advanced Military Spaceflight Capability Technology Identification”, AMSCI and so on. Don't you have higher-resolution scans of these...

From http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/SpaceLVs/Slides/sld054.htm "Two Rockwell TAV concepts from 1980. The Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle would have the capability to routinely cruise and maneuver into and out of the atmosphere -- either to gain rapid responsiveness for military low Earth orbit missions...

Found this one on the web, you all might find it to be some interesting reading: http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/reading_room/883.pdf Basically it's a 1983 report covering studies of a new manned spacecraft.

Numerous methods of deploying the Peacekeeper were investigated and I wish somebody had all the details. Here's a few things I turned up: "One of the first MX projects was the Vertical Shelter Ground System Definition Program which required construction of an 18-foot diameter, 130-foot deep...

Thread to discuss configurations of X-30National Aero-Space Plane [Aero-Space Plane is a correct official writing] from various contractors. General Dynamics proporsal graphics.

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?