Very cool - my uncle flew those things. I think the ingress/egress is on the port side of the engineers console.
Photoshop or jester?
Got to crawl thru one at the SAC Museum in NE.
Amazing how much room there was in the cockpit.
That is so cool!!! You can actually zoom in and read the instrument dials!!! Engineer Porn!! fap, fap, fap....
Gawd, and here I was thinking my panel on the 747-200 was cool.....
14K hours and all three tickets later, the one thing I regret was passing on a job offer to crew the MATS Connie. Youre right hedspace, just plain ol' sexy there,, fap, fap,
14K hours and all three tickets later, the one thing I regret was passing on a job offer to crew the MATS Connie. Youre right hedspace, just plain ol' sexy there,, fap, fap,
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Likely Panoscan Panoramic Camera for High Speed Digital Capture; Home of Panoscan Inc. or a newer equivalent. Oh, and a fantastic photographer.
What happens when the USAF doesn't want to leave their comfy bunker, but still get you from 8100+ miles away? A little gift from orbit traveling at mach 23...
First one is a Minute Man III ICBM test.
The second is the one that scared the crap out of the Soviets, and it's the Peacekeeper, with 10 warheads (though this picture is either not all of them, or was loaded with two decoys). Had they been using live munitions for the test, each one would have been up to 475KT.
Epic when you consider how ominous it is really is...
First one is a Minute Man III ICBM test.
The second is the one that scared the crap out of the Soviets, and it's the Peacekeeper, with 10 warheads (though this picture is either not all of them, or was loaded with two decoys). Had they been using live munitions for the test, each one would have been up to 475KT.
Epic when you consider how ominous it is really is...
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Very good ! I worked on the MMII , MMIII and GLCM from 73-94
The GLCM is what really scared the crap out of the USSR....
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I haven't heard anyone mention the GLCM for a long time! -grin-
I had to make these larger... they are great pics-
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Yes they are. Thanks for making them big!
Are those beams of light the trace from the missiles? First time I've seen pics of that.
The trace from the incoming (dummy) warheads is caused by the heat. They are coming in at close to 17,000 MPH.
I had to make these larger... they are great pics-
What exactly is this??
These are the (dummy) warheads coming in from a MX test launch
Ive always loved both of these.
Tapatalk ate my spelling.
Tapatalk ate my spelling.
For Dog Lovers
Marine Brian Dennis brought back a mutt from Iraq. Cool story at SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- Nubs is reunited with Marine owner
He was my Bn CO in boot camp 2002 as a Captain; "Welcome to the eye of the storm, recruit! Hornets baby!" As we crested Mount Motherfucker on the last day of the crucible I could see his antenna wagging in the breeze at the head of the column; two F-18s buzzed us at perhaps 100ft ASL, one inverted. We let out a warcry and charged the remaining quarter mile right behind him. Very motivating. Yes, I cried up there. One day as I was going through my kids bookshelf, I found the kids book and have no clue where it came from but instantly recognized that ugly Devil.
Marine Brian Dennis brought back a mutt from Iraq. Cool story at SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- Nubs is reunited with Marine owner
He was my Bn CO in boot camp 2002 as a Captain; "Welcome to the eye of the storm, recruit! Hornets baby!" As we crested Mount Motherfucker on the last day of the crucible I could see his antenna wagging in the breeze at the head of the column; two F-18s buzzed us at perhaps 100ft ASL, one inverted. We let out a warcry and charged the remaining quarter mile right behind him. Very motivating. Yes, I cried up there. One day as I was going through my kids bookshelf, I found the kids book and have no clue where it came from but instantly recognized that ugly Devil.
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So, I guess if the MX was launched 2000 miles away, those warheads are in a 1 MOA group........cool!
The MX missile was the last mechanical gyroscopically targeted system we made. I've heard / read that the gyroscopes took an INSANE number of man hours (like 500,000) to make. I think each missile had three of them...
The result was a MIRV launch platform that was accurate to within a few meters of the target from over 8000 miles away.
This is one of the reasons is was so feared, in general. We could have replaced the entire arsenal with MX missles, which are better in every aspect than the Minuteman systems... and increased the warheads deploy in field by at least 70%.
Imagine a warhead with 475KT that can hit the building your primary target is in from over 8000 miles away, and you can target it 3-5 times MORE than you already had?
Makes the possibility of a pre-emptive strike feasible.
...and that's what scared the shit out of the Soviet Union. (...and everyone else.)
Seriously, the technology in those missiles was the pinnacle of advanced mechanical designs, as opposed to GPS guided munitions.
Very true GB, the MX system is fantastic. However, the GLCM system is what brought the Soviets to the table to reduce weapons. We had them all over and they flew under radar, extremely accurate, very hard to detect or defend against.
This is a great story and cool ass dog. My kids rented this book about Nubs from a local Library here in San Diego. He's at dog beach occassionally, from what I hear. I haven't had the pleasure . . . yet. My kids will go nuts if they meet him.
I read that the last one was decommissioned in 2005. They are now using the warheads on the Minuteman missiles.
Someone sent me this link to the top 100 military photos so I thought I'd post it. Some, I'm not sure about.
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Sorry, I am not figuring out the link. Its a powerpoint presentation
https://a.gfx.ms//ppt_57.png
Sorry, I am not figuring out the link. Its a powerpoint presentation
Yep, all true.
Hopefully this guy can't reproduce anymore. Idiocracy.
