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From: dvlssd@cs.umu.se (Stefan Skoglund)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Offensive use of Sound possible?
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.033941.20279@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 03:39:41 GMT
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From: dvlssd@cs.umu.se (Stefan Skoglund)
During the 50's and early 60's the USAF had some research on nuclear-driven
bombers and cruise-missiles.

The projects were stopped because of problem with basing, radiation and so on.

The cruise missile was supposed to work like this :
One small reactor as a heat source in a RAM-engine.
A magazine with hydrogen bombs.
Controlling equipment for the reactor.
Terrain-following-radar controlled autopilot.
Some boosters to get speed before you start the main engine.

Let the missile fly at about 100 m above the ground
in mach 5.

then it gets into russia toss one bomb at Novosibirsk
moscow and so one.
Then the magazine is empty crash the missile
in peking.

Can you imagine how it would have looked.
Only the sound would have killed everybody in the missiles path.
And then we have the radiation to.
The project stumbled then they got to think on one thing :
there on earth shall we testfly the damn thing.
The engine had already been tested and rated as satisfactory.

Stefan Skoglund , dvlssd@cs.umu.se

ps
flame me in swedish.
ds