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X-17 & Argus films! (links)
I just came across color films--from 1958 and 1959--on the USAF X-17 ICBM warhead re-entry test missiles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs-ZMALHpOE and the U.S. Navy's Operation Argus X-17 vehicles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4UZK3_FiU , which carried low-yield atomic bombs into space to test their artificial radiation belt creation effects (other rocket vehicles are also shown in the Operation Argus film). The X-17--in both versions--would make a fine flying scale model rocket kit (a builder-customize-able one)...
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I had always wondered if as modified X-17 could have launched a small satellite.
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The original Argus was designed to DELIBERATELY POWR-PRANG !
The third stage fired when pointed DOWNWARD toward terra-firma. This should be allowed in NAR Scale Competition as this IS the scale flight profile.
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Operation Argus X-17 round models would turn in interesting "flight points"; flash powder payloads could simulate their atomic bomb payloads...
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