[Milsurplus] Re: Milsurplus digest, Vol 1 #428 - 15 msgs

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:53:13 +0000

The starting speed of the bullet/rocket is the speed of the launching
platform. That's why they use multi-stage rockets on space shots.

>From: Brooke Clarke <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Milsurplus] Re: Milsurplus digest, Vol 1 #428 - 15 msgs
>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:30:59 -0800
>
>Hi Mike:
>
>I was in the Air Scouts around 1958 and we met at Moffett Field in Mountain 
>View.
>It was the F-8 crusader that shot it's 50 cal guns at a target being towed 
>in the water then dived and flew over the target and in
>the process got ahead of the 50 slugs which hit the plane.  After that they 
>went with 20 mm guns.
>
>73,
>
>Brooke Clarke, N6GCE
>http://www.prc68.com
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:00:28 -0600
> > From: mikea <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] U-2 and SR-71A
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:23:05PM -0600, Bob Wilder wrote:
> > > Got a chance to see the YF-12A when it came into Eglin years
> > > ago for armament testing. Remember the guys from the alert
> > > crew placing 5 gal cans all over the ramp under the wings
> > > to catch the fuel that was leaking out of the aircraft. Was
> > > assigned to base comm at the time and was in the control tower
> > > when the plane took off to go out and test a missile. Watch
> > > the aircraft go straight up and break the sound barrier twice
> > > from the ground to an altitude above 70,000 feet. The YF-12A
> > > was supposed to shoot down a drone B47 out over the Gulf of
> > > Mexico. The B-47 was at an altitude of 40,000 feet and when
> > > the YF-12A started its dive towards the bomber and released
> > > the missile, the missile entered the vertical stabilizer, thru
> > > the horizontal stabilizer and continued to the water before
> > > it exploded. It seems that those first tests the missile used
> > > a contact fuse and because of the speed of the missile it did
> > > not explode on contact. The crippled B-47 was flown back to Aux
> > > field 3 when it was landed. As I maintained the radio equipment
> > > at Field 3, I got a chance to see the B-47 with its big holes
> > > in the tail.
> >
> > Wasn't it an F-104 that shot itself down by running into the
> > stream of slugs that it had discharged?
> >
> > It sure illustrates the principle that the weapon needs to go
> > faster than the weapons platform. Which brings up the interesting
> > question of just _what_ missile, back then, was fast enough that
> > the YF-12A wouldn't drop it off the 0-length rails and then run
> > right over it.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Andrews
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> > Tired old sysadmin since 1964
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