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We had a visit last night from Sean, Fiona and Christine and while Christine was reminiscing about her time there with the ROC, Sean was filming it. The film premieres on YouTube tonight at 10pm, catch it here:![]()
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More fascinating information from our friends across the pond!15 Seconds to Doomsday, or, Nuclear Hypersonics in North Dakota.![]()
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On this date in 1966, a Sprint missile was unsuccessfully test launched at White Sands in New Mexico. Of three other tests conducted that year, all were failures.![]()
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However Sprint was something very new to missile defense in the mid-1960s. Introduced as a "last ditch" anti-ballistic missile should the much larger and longer-ranged Zeus and later Spartan missile miss an incoming enemy re-entry vehicle and nuclear warhead, Sprint could be called nothing short of a technological marvel. ![]()
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Intended to destroy targets in the lower atmosphere, Sprint had to be fast, Mach 10 fast. At 27 feet tall, Sprints looked to explode out of their underground launch cells at launch. It quickly encountered 100gs in acceleration load and friction with the air meant that the tip of the missile was actually hotter than inside the missile's burning rocket motor exhaust chamber. Steering in the first stage was accomplished by injecting Freon into the exhaust. Within three seconds of launch, it could overtake a speeding bullet. Within fifteen seconds, after which it's two stages of solid propellant would be exhausted, it came within range of an enemy re-entry vehicle itself streaking in towards a target at hypersonic speeds - in North Dakota, those would be Minuteman missile installations. A low-kiloton, enhanced radiation warhead was intended to disable the enemy warhead without causing damage to the land below. ![]()
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Had the 70 Sprints deployed to North Dakota's Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex been used in combat, the interception process would have been handled via Safeguard's automated Data Processing System at the Missile Site Radar pyramid. Aside from the low kiloton bursts creating blinding flashes of light upon detonation in the lower atmosphere, Sprints from the MSR and associated Remote Sprint Launcher sites would have rippled automatically into the air in a dazzling display of nuclear firepower. Luckily, that scenario never occurred.![]()
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Sprints were retired in 1976 along with the only Safeguard system site ever built, North Dakota's Mickelsen Complex. It is likely the experience gained from Sprints aided in future anti-ballistic missile research, leading to today's kinetic-kill vehicles.![]()
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(Photo: U.S. Army's "Seize the High Ground" via srmsc.org)![]()
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Some fine tunage from our bunker friend DJ Arricc of Virtual Goth Night!
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A short DJ set from DJ Arricc for Virtual Temple 8, streamed on Twitch 28/04/2024. I decided to plan the set around some cover/remix versions that I enjoy. The set was originally planned to finish wit...