Author Topic: Rocket Fighters Ideas and Inspiration  (Read 10409 times)

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Re: Rocket Fighters Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #25 on: September 02, 2023, 03:40:39 AM »
There's got to be a way to put a weapon on an X-15  ;D

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Re: Rocket Fighters Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #26 on: September 02, 2023, 10:56:17 PM »
Let's not forget the Russian Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1:



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Re: Rocket Fighters Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #27 on: September 03, 2023, 02:07:47 AM »
I think everyone has that kit. I remember that it was one of the first widely available former Eastern European/Russian kits after the fall of the USSR. I even got one for free as "packing material"! It's not a great kit.

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Re: Rocket Fighters Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #28 on: September 03, 2023, 04:10:46 AM »
Not a fighter perhaps but close enough:

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Re: Rocket Fighters Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #29 on: September 03, 2023, 09:06:30 AM »
X-15 strapped to an Atlas rocket, cool!
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Re: Rocket Fighters Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #30 on: October 10, 2023, 08:07:02 AM »
Not a fighter perhaps but close enough:


I'm not at all certian that the "aluminum condom" structure of the Atlas could take it.  I rather like the proposed x-15B that was to be launched by three Navaho boosters.