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Shuttle regularly launched spy sats and was designed to grab an enemy one in a single orbit mission. Also Soviets believed it would nuke Moscow by sudden plane
by m4rtink 1y ago
Shuttle regularly launched spy sats and was designed to grab an enemy one in a single orbit mission. Also Soviets believed it would nuke Moscow by sudden plane change via its wings & build their own version as a result.
That sounds military enough for me.
- dotancohen 1y agoThe bombing of the Soviet Union was to happen via polar launch. The wings were there not for plane change, rather for cross range landing after the single orbit polar mission.
- m4rtink 1y agoInteresting - I was never sure about the exact mechanism m, just that the orbital speed & lift provided by wings were part of it. :)