I wonder what for armament programs would be realized under Nixon and his Secretary of defense ?
and there were allot and very insane proposal and program that never past JFK and Robert McNamara.
X-20 Dyna-Soar a USAF spaceplane for reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and sabotage of enemy satellites.
Lockheed YF-12 a mach 3 interceptor based on SR-71
Convair B-58B and C versions of Mach 2 Bomber
The Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142 VTOL transporter for US forces.
and the insane concepts for deterrence.
SLAM a USAF program for nuclear powers supersonic low altitude missile, they made engine test in Nevada and wanted to first prototype test flights as McNamara stopped the program.
USAF Orion Battleships, huge spacecraft that using atomic bombs to propel it self true space.
Nuclear Powered ICBM and yes the soviet work on that to
Those seem insane only because they never were constructed. Had the Saturn V never existed, it would be in that camp as well. Nuclear powered space craft are perfectly realistic, and grand as Orion was (and is, since they're looking into it again), it also is realistic.
Not to say they would get built or were likely to be.
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