Harry Truman- Assigned blog #7
- election results/why won
Cold war Project
15. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative(Missile Defense System today)-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
http://www.mongabay.com/reference/environment/Ground-based_systems....
http://www.aero.org/publications/crosslink/winter2001/05.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_missile
- March 23, 1983
- used to ground-based and space-based systems to protect the US from nuclear ballistic missiles
- ground-based system: logging systems that employ ground-based equipment ( asfeller-bunchers, how chuckers, skidderd, and forwards)
- space-based systems: can detect and early warning of a missile threat
- nuclear ballistic missiles: a missile that follows a pre planned orbit flightpath with the objective one or more warheads to a pre determined target
- focused on strategic defense
- Germany tried to put together the first surface-to-air missiles (SAMs)
- didn't have enough time after1943 to make poerational-level weapons before the war ended
- research was good for the US and USSR- missile programs slow in post-war period
- cold war started
- USSR was facing huge USAF and RAF bomber fleets...hoping not to runinto them in the air
- USAF-United States Air Force
- RAF-Royal Air Force
- rapidly started to develop SAM
- SA-1 Guild system (S-25 Berkut)
- Berkut-Golden Eagle(Russian)- surface-to-sir guided missile
- first operating SAM system
- defend Moscow
- SA-2 Guidline
- is in use today
- S-75 Dvina (Russian)
- high-altitude, commande guided, SAM
- US and UK similar to Russia's soon followed
- late 1950's the ability for the US air fleet to enter Soviet airspace was increasing
- Both sides they increased the efforts to make a long-range missile
- R-7 Semyorka- for the Soviets with no effective bomber force of their own, but had a lot of efforct into their program and quickly brought their basic r-7 semyorka
- first intercontental ballistic missile
- 28 launcher 1957-1961- never deployed with a mission
- Right after that the US came up with the SM-65 Atlas
- useful for attacking large targets-cities and ports
- first intercontental ballistic missile to be made and deployed by the US
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