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NRO launches rocket successfully, payload is TOP SECRET
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 10368738:MV8xODI3MjA4XzMwNDQwOTAyX0I5MDlDNDgy] [quote:Astromut:MV8xODI3MjA4XzMwNDQwNTEzX0RFMEYzQzMx] [quote:Anonymous Coward 10368738:MV8xODI3MjA4XzMwNDM5NzE1X0ZCQzBERUYw] [quote:Astromut:MV8xODI3MjA4XzMwNDM5NDY2XzJGQ0VBN0Q0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 10368738:MV8xODI3MjA4XzMwNDM5MTg5XzI3Mzk1NTIw] [quote:Astromut:MV8xODI3MjA4XzMwNDM3NzY5XzVERTg3MzJG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 13672725:MV8xODI3MjA4XzMwNDM0MTQ4X0VFMUYyNjc=] If you ask me that Air force unmanned shuttle is a glorified ICBM. They send it up with a 50 megaton payload and it lays in the weeds until needed. With no launch to detect and only re-entry to pick up on, it can be on target and detonated in probably less than 10 minutes. Not long enough to get Putin out of bed to answer the phone. [/quote] Err, no it can't. If the orbital plane of the shuttle doesn't pass over the target at the time you happen to need to use it, you may have to wait hours for a window to come open. Now, no one would necessarily know what you were planning until the de-orbit burn, but you're still looking at the better part of an hour from the time you perform the deorbit burn to the time that you're over the target. [/quote] Lets say it has two or three rotary warhead launchers in its cargo bay much like the nosecone of a small trident or polaris sub launched thermo nuke missle. Possible. [/quote] If it's just the nosecone, how the hell is it going to de-orbit itself? A trident missile wouldn't even come close to fitting in the X-37's payload bay; it's too wide and way too long. Just the nosecone though is not going to be able to do what you're suggesting it should do. [quote:AC] Cutting out the launch and mid flight phase of an ICBM cuts time down from thirty minutes to five maybe seven minutes to reach targets. [/quote] 5 to 7 minutes? Do you have any idea how much delta-V you would need to put a warhead in orbit on a trajectory that would hit its target in under 10 minutes? You would effectively need to nearly completely nullify all orbital velocity. You're talking about 7 km/sec dela-V. [/quote] Easy Concept. The Airforce unmaned shuttle launching nuclear warheads from its cargo bay. Forget the missle. Do you know how small an independent warhead is? Look up Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle. MIRV. Airforce jargon. [/quote] Don't talk down to me. I know what a MIRV is, and I understand its trajectory apparently better than you do. A MIRV cannot, I repeat, cannot go from orbiting the earth to hitting a target in 5 minutes. A MIRV works by being boosted into a sub-orbital trajectory. It doesn't need to de-orbit because its trajectory isn't in an orbital trajectory to begin with, it will come down on its own over the general region of its targets regardless of whether it actively does anything or not. It doesn't require much delta-V, let alone several km/sec of delta-V, to hit its targets, all it needs is a small amount of delta-V for each warhead to fine tune its trajectory to reach each target. Putting MIRVs into an X-37 is not going to give you the ability to hit a target within 5-7 minutes. At best you can de-orbit and then deploy the MIRVs so that they hit their targets once they reach their perigee point on the other side of the orbit from the de-orbit burn. That's going to take the better part of an hour. [/quote] Sorry I pissed you off. Anyways forget the MIRV then. Wouldnt a space launched nuclear missle be feasible? [/quote]
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"The largest rocket ever launched from the West Coast blasted off Thursday with a classified defense satellite on board. The 235-foot-tall Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle lifted off at 1:10 p.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office."
This payload was kept top secret. Why is that? What are they doing? Was it a rocket with a spy satellite? Considering it was a fucking large rocket, could it be filled with some form of explosives to hit an in-bound object headed toward us?
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