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7/7/2025, 11:59:40 PM
>>63953208
Lame, whatever though, Im surprised a modification wasn't done much earlier.
>>63946213
In the world of intercepting ballistic missiles, the Sprint missile was one of the most fascinating ideas. It accelerated to Mach 10 in 5 seconds (undergoing nearly 100 g's) and was meant to intercept a reentry body after it has already breached thinner parts of the atmosphere. The hope was that in the small amount of time before the warhead can hit the target, the Sprint would be able to close the distance and render the weapon ineffective. The thing that killed the project was MIRV armed ballistic missiles, though one could also make a case about political meddling causing the cancellation of the overarching program (even then, the weapons utility was still questionable and exorbitantly expensive), a final nail was also the growing number of ICBM's fielded by the USSR, making the task of preventing large scale nuclear attacks nearly impossible (with ground based systems, anyhow).
Lame, whatever though, Im surprised a modification wasn't done much earlier.
>>63946213
In the world of intercepting ballistic missiles, the Sprint missile was one of the most fascinating ideas. It accelerated to Mach 10 in 5 seconds (undergoing nearly 100 g's) and was meant to intercept a reentry body after it has already breached thinner parts of the atmosphere. The hope was that in the small amount of time before the warhead can hit the target, the Sprint would be able to close the distance and render the weapon ineffective. The thing that killed the project was MIRV armed ballistic missiles, though one could also make a case about political meddling causing the cancellation of the overarching program (even then, the weapons utility was still questionable and exorbitantly expensive), a final nail was also the growing number of ICBM's fielded by the USSR, making the task of preventing large scale nuclear attacks nearly impossible (with ground based systems, anyhow).
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