747 As A Weapons Platform

"KnifeKnut" (KnifeKnut) 03/01/2014 at 11:28 • Filed to: None

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I raise you with an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Launcher 747 and a Cruise Missile Launcher:

shop-teacher > KnifeKnut 03/01/2014 at 11:35

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Yipes! That is all.

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > KnifeKnut 03/01/2014 at 11:41

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Whats the third picture of? those don't look like ICBMs

edit: its the cruise missile launcher. There's less on the web that I figured there would be about this.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > KnifeKnut 03/01/2014 at 12:44

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Oh to work for a defense contractor during the Cold War....

user314 > KnifeKnut 03/01/2014 at 13:16

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Air launched ICBMs weren't even a new idea then, too. Between 1960 and 1962 the USAF worked on the GAM-87 Skybolt, four of which would have been mounted to a B-52. They never really worked, but the idea was there.

They tried again in '74, and launched a Minuteman ICBM from a C-5A Galaxy.

vicariousILive > KnifeKnut 03/01/2014 at 18:32

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Still was a better idea than this...