Argentina Launches First Satellite

[camberiu]

True, but I guess in a time of war another challenge was also to research how to reuse the spacecraft. It was not like the Russian SS-18 Satan that can carry 10 Nuclear Bombs.

It was designed to carry multiple nuclear warheads. Actually it was like a SS-18 Satan, but more dangerous. With a land based ICBM, you have plenty of warning. US Satellites looking down could easily detect the infrared signature of the missile launches. So you could detect an attack right from the moment when it started. On the case of the Buran, the vehicle it could be launched loaded with nuclear warheads, stay in orbit for weeks or months (sitting right above the US) since it was fully automated, and simply "drop" the warheads over the US one day without warning. No infrared signature or anything else to allow for an early warning. This video below shows how it was supposed to happen.

 

[ghost]

They knew that we knew what the mission was. We were ready and they knew that also. But I like the silly little mini me's popping out of the mother ship. It's cute.

 

[Hybrid Ambassador]

Russian, awesome technology..If they only knew to how to create a new demokracy so money could keep on coming in order to affording the clever but astronomically expensive supertechnologies for deploying and implement...

 

[camberiu]

Speaking of which, Argentina's future replacement for its current fleet of aging Hercules C-130 military cargo planes, the EMBRAER KC-390, just rolled out the EMBRAER plant in Sao Paulo for the first time today. The spoilers, front landing gear door and rear ramp were manufactured by the Fabrica Nacional de Aviones in Cordoba. Argentina is expected to acquire a minimum of 6 of these.