Go Titan!

[Dinner]

Re: Re: Go Titan!

Originally posted by Zkribbler


That's since 1955. You must be speaking of the entire Titan series. I lived near Vandeburg in the late 60's, and my dad was working on the Titan II's.

PS: We can't see a launch down here unless it takes place just after dusk. Then the contrail lights up really well in the dark sky. Calls come in from all over about the "UFO."

I used to see the rocket launches very clearly when I was living in Isla Vista. We could also watch the launches as Bush's missile defense system failed their tests or at least we could see the missiles flying through the sky. Boy is that a worthless pork project.

[Grandpa Troll]

Re: Re: Re: Go Titan!

Originally posted by DanS


Yes, I'm speaking of the entire Titan series, which began in the 50s with old V-2 hardware. This is the end of the entire program.

Thanks Dan for this technology was almost a problem for the world, IIRC (WW2)

[DanS]

The V-2 had some rather poor design features that made it never a problem in any real sense. It wasn't going to be a problem, either. That's not to say on the whole it wasn't a quantum leap over its predecessors, however.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by DanS
The V-2 had some rather poor design features that made it never a problem in any real sense.

For Great Britain?

[DanS]

No. The outcome of the war was never going to be impacted to Germany's benefit by the V-2. It was little more than a huge sinkhole for Germany's resources.

[Mr. Harley]

Except that thankfully Hitler considered Brits almost as good as Germans, and thus never considered using Sarin. If the Nazis had used aersol dispersion of Sarin, as a response to Dresdin, it could have been a monstrous problem. Nobody had any nerve agents as advanced as the Nazis. Remember, Sarin will kill you with skin contact, so "Gas Masks" are only a delaying factor, not a defense per se.

[BeBMan]

Wasn't the Phoenix made from an old Titan? So the one in the OP wouldn't be the last..../geek.

[child of Thor]

Nazi's

[Zkribbler]

Re: Re: Re: Go Titan!

Originally posted by Oerdin


I used to see the rocket launches very clearly when I was living in Isla Vista.

Well, IV, sure. I was speaking of L.A. (When I lived in Santa Maria, we could tell what type of missile was being lauched by the way the ground shook.)

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Mr. Harley
Except that thankfully Hitler considered Brits almost as good as Germans, and thus never considered using Sarin. If the Nazis had used aersol dispersion of Sarin, as a response to Dresdin, it could have been a monstrous problem. Nobody had any nerve agents as advanced as the Nazis. Remember, Sarin will kill you with skin contact, so "Gas Masks" are only a delaying factor, not a defense per se.

I don't want to threadjack here, but I think the main reason for not using Sarin or any other gas against the UK was probably Hitler's fear of retaliation with similar methods (if as adavanced or not is another question)....

[Mr. Harley]

Actually, the Brits did not have the stockpiles - they had some gas, but no practical provisions for their use in a bombing campaign against the Germans. The US stockpiles had not been transported. The Soviets had huge stockpiles, and while they had no delivery system for use against civilian targets - they did have them for military use, and were possibly the only country with the willingness to sustain "friendly fire" losses due to their military use. However, it is all moot - Hitler would only have used gas against mud people, and the mud people in question had tons to respond with.