Star Wars toy collection
30-Nov-2004Phwoar! Thunderbirds were go!
Defense tech links to a post that seems to disclose a very well hidden Soviet-era defense program. In the 80’s the Soviet Union launched an orbiting Star Wars-style missile defense battle station prototype. It appears that it failed to deploy into a proper orbit and it and its program were eventually scuttled (is that the right term for falling out of the sky?)
Link to discussion forum with a whole slew of photographs.
It’s the booster that gets the Thuderbird juices going.
BTW: If you are reading this, my hosting service transfer has succeeded - yay!
the polyus station would have been a diaster for the
d | 10-Sep-2008the polyus station would have been a diaster for the USA if they had been successful. Think movie “space cowboys”