[jr2]

Hmm.. anyone heard of Project Pluto?  Interesting.

[TrashMan]

Wicked...what a weapon!

Thank GOD no one actually made it

[Mika]

And something even more amazing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

A nuclear powered rocket. I didn't know they had some actual testings behind it also.

Talk about technological advantage in the 1960s!

Mika

[Nuke]

i think i saw this on the history channel.

i think their application of the engine was misguided. massive atmospheric carrier / battlecriuser anyone?

[jr2]

And something even more amazing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

A nuclear powered rocket. I didn't know they had some actual testings behind it also.

Talk about technological advantage in the 1960s!

Mika

Wikipedia turns up no results on that link, FF dropped the ending ) parenthesis off of the link.  So, click the link, put the ending ) on the address bar, and hit enter to get that.  Or click here.

[achtung]

I remember hearing about this before, and hearing about the potential for radioactive exhaust.

[redsniper]

* redsniper notices Swantz's signature.

gb2/b/

[Bobboau]

woh.. that is a good sig.

[achtung]

* redsniper notices Swantz's signature.

gb2/b/

You are an hero.

Also no u.

[Nuke]

thats a tome that deserves inversion

[castor]

Nuclear reactors equipped with warheads, cruising on low altitude, at mach 3, for periods of months
Now that is a hilarious plan.

[Mefustae]

Hilarious? That's ****ing genius. If nobody had hit on the idea of the SLBM, it's quite possible that the US Military might have fallen back upon this idea for creating a viable second strike weapon.

God, I love the Cold War. Everybody was so creative back then, it was a golden age in war!

[Wanderer]

I think i saw a document of the nuclear powered aircrafts and ramjets recently.. It was yet another another race between USA and USSR. Though the US version never flew, it was way too heavy for a manned aircraft (radiation shielding) but suitable for missiles. Russians however managed to build a flying nuclear powered aircraft while facing the same issues as their US counterparts... they had solved the weight problem in purely soviet style.. they removed the radiation shielding ..

Flight time of the aircraft was probably longer than the lifetime of the crew...

[castor]

Yea well, I'm sure this was one of the more "sane" ideas around, happy to not know about the rest..

[Scuddie]

* redsniper notices Swantz's signature.

gb2/b/

YOU CANT DO THAT!!  YOU THIEVING PIECE OF HORSE **** GIVE THAT BACK!!  IT'S MINE, I SAID IT HERE FIRST ASSHOLE!!!!

* Scuddie gives himself a stroke.

On an unrelated note, I'm somewhat surprised that this idea hasn't been attempted or looked into again, considering nuclear reactors are a lot cleaner and more efficient now than they were in the 60s...  Although the method of propulsion isn't exactly practical .

[redsniper]

You can have your /b/. I don't claim to be one of them, I just visit out of morbid curiousity.

[Scuddie]

I dont want it either.  I have also never visited it, even out of morbid curiosity.  Gay puppet pr0n is not for me

[achtung]

You can have your /b/. I don't claim to be one of them, I just visit out of morbid curiousity.

Don't we all?  ¯\(°_o)/¯

[Mefustae]

On an unrelated note, I'm somewhat surprised that this idea hasn't been attempted or looked into again, considering nuclear reactors are a lot cleaner and more efficient now than they were in the 60s...  Although the method of propulsion isn't exactly practical .

Yeah, something like this could obsolete the entire nuclear triad. They could have the accuracy of bombers without the slow speed and vulnerability, the stealth and survivability of submarines without the communications issues, and the range of an ICBM while retaining the ability to be called back.

[Nuke]

put a couple of theese engines on the airbortne laser system.