
The official AHF Cold War quiz thread
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It's the U.S. Navy, after all... 

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In July 1975, Connelly D. Stevenson commander of USS Finback permitted a 23 year old go-go dancer to dance topless onboard the sub, probably to raise morale. Some newspapers also reported that he gave the dancer a goodbye kiss. Word got out and he got dismissed.Ironmachine wrote:Thanks, Waleed.
This not-very-clear picture is the only known photo of a scandalous incident in a Navy. What happened?
Unless I'm mistaken and the US Navy had multiple strip-scandals in its nuclear fleet.

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hi, all,
is this Cold war quiz thread cold, too ?
greetings, the pb
is this Cold war quiz thread cold, too ?
greetings, the pb
Peace hath her victories no less renowned than War
(John Milton, the poet, in a letter to the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652)
(John Milton, the poet, in a letter to the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652)
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Oh, I haven't noticed that Wilhelm_Klave had given the correct answer to my question...
Over to him, even if somewhat late!

Over to him, even if somewhat late!

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Hi Wilhelm,
Would you like to post a question for us?
regards Robb
Would you like to post a question for us?
regards Robb
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What was Operation Plainfare?
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It was the british contribution to the Berlin airlift.Marcus Wendel wrote:What was Operation Plainfare?
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Correct, the question is yours.
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In the fifties the US launched a project for a nuclear superweapon, a nightmare so bizarre and insane that it could have come directly from Dr. Strangeloves brain.
What was the name of this project, cancelled in 1964?
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What was the name of this project, cancelled in 1964?
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Helmut0815 wrote:In the fifties the US launched a project for a nuclear superweapon, a nightmare so bizarre and insane that it could have come directly from Dr. Strangeloves brain.
What was the name of this project, cancelled in 1964?
Project Pluto / Vought SLAM
http://www.voughtaircraft.com/heritage/ ... /slam.html
An nuclear ramjet powered supersonic cruise missile that spewed radioactive fallout from tailpipe, and followed preprogrammed course to eject multiple thermonuclear warheads along its route. When all bombs were ejected it could had been programmed to fly around in circles in densely populated enemy heartland, like days, spewing radionuclides, and in the end of reactor lifetime to dive to some city turning it inhabitable wasteland for thousands of years.
Americans did not find large enough testing range for it, and so program was dumped. Whole span of Pacific Ocean was too small and densely populated area for peacetime testing of Pluto

Maybe some USAAF generals thought that it was also bit overkill - remember these were the guys who build SAC air armada, stated that Titan II could carry 50Mt warhead if needed, and wanted whole Midwest US drilled with Minuteman silos, lamenting the puny 1000 missile McNamara program....So you needed some REAL horror to make them flinch

Few nuclear ramjet engine prototypes were fired for couple seconds in Nevada test site, the engine being rolled in rail tracks to its permanent nuclear waste bunker immediately after test....
Dr. Strangelove would had LOVED that weapon !
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Indeed! You're right, it is project Pluto: http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.htmlMark V wrote:Dr. Strangelove would had LOVED that weapon !
Next question is yours.
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Agena target vehicle was the star of Gemini space program, serving as docking target while developing procedures and training for Apollo programs space vehicle dockings.
But it was not the job that Agena vehicle was designed for ?
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Developed by Lockheed initially for the canceled WS-117L reconnaissance satellite program...?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM-81_Agena
waleed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM-81_Agena
waleed
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OK. I accept that.
Agena was an workhorse of early US photo-recce satellite program. It was full fledged spacecraft with 3-axis controllability. Basically Americans just strapped the current evolution of camera and film return system to Agena, and had an photo-recce satellite.
Your turn.
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Agena was an workhorse of early US photo-recce satellite program. It was full fledged spacecraft with 3-axis controllability. Basically Americans just strapped the current evolution of camera and film return system to Agena, and had an photo-recce satellite.
Your turn.
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Hi
After 10+ months; I'm stepping in!
Name that plane.
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After 10+ months; I'm stepping in!

Name that plane.
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