On 25 Feb 2004 08:31:03 -0800, (John Schilling)
wrote:


Wouldn't a deployed Tsar Bomba carrier have been a militarized Proton,
aka UR-500 aka 8K82? The space launch version uses only storable
propellants, can put twenty tons into low orbit with the smallest
fairing easily holding a 2 x 8 meter payload, and my references on
the space launch side claim that it was developed with the ICBM role
and the Tsar Bomba payload in mind from the start (1961).




The airburst footprint of 100MT delivered that way would indeed be scary.
Hadnt realised that an ICBM was a viable delivery platform for it.




greg

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