"Steve Hix" wrote in message
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Bob Urz wrote:

Steve Hix wrote:

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From: (Prowlus)
Date: 6/12/2004 8:10 AM Central Daylight Time
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looks like the USAF is considering jamming a reactor into one of
their
UAVS


http://popularmechanics.com/science/...wings/index.ph
tm
l

Think they'll resurect the "glow-in-the-dark" brigade too?

It's Popular Mechanics, I wouldn't count on the story being anything
more
than
an over active imagination. I put it in the same category as the
laser
tank
they had a "photograph" of in 1970 or 1972.

PS isn't *always* wrong; this might actually turn out to be something
useful.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993406
http://www.utdallas.edu/research/quantum/Tutorial.htm

Hell, they had a write-up on the SLAM 30 years ago or so.
And some of that even got to prototype stage. The reactor is
probably buried in the desert somewhere. Great UAV. It did not
need bombs. It was the ultimate dirty moving bomb.

Was that one Project Pluto?

Yeah, the one "Air and Space" said would be throwing out Hydrogen Bombs
while literally "frying chickens in the barnyard" with the radioactive
superheated exhaust. Unlike that one, this reactor is apparently designed to
minimise radioactive release. Pluto was mentioned as either something one
would have to crash into an ocean after a test or use (A test would probably
cause a disaster in itself) or be programmed to fly for as long as possible
over enemy territory, perhaps for many years as the world was blasted, and
the missile kept flying back and forth, automated, sustained by a reactor
ramjet, over the moonscape below. Yikes.

Ick.

Yeah.