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2024-09-03 Science & Technology

U.S. researchers find probable launch site of Russia's new nuclear-powered missile

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 How does nuclear power propel a missile?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-09-03 13:41|| 2024-09-03 13:41|| Front Page Top

#2 How does nuclear power propel a missile?

Project Pluto was a United States government program to develop nuclear-powered ramjet engines for use in cruise missiles.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-03 14:04|| 2024-09-03 14:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The 9M730 Burevestnik (Russian: Буревестник; "Storm petrel", NATO reporting name: SSC-X-9 Skyfall) is a Russian low-flying, nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile under development for the Russian Armed Forces.

Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-03 14:09|| 2024-09-03 14:09|| Front Page Top

#4 ^USA was developing such a missile back in the 50s and 60s. It was a ramjet where the nuclear fission heated the gas on its way out the rear of the missile generating lots and lots of thrust.

Interestingly there was a cartoon character then called Roger Ramjet. His superpower came when he ate a 'proton pill'.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-09-03 14:26|| 2024-09-03 14:26|| Front Page Top

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