Maybe that's why the one I launched from Vandenberg only made it half way
to Kwajalein? ;-)
Joe
WDØM
Colonel, USAF (Ret)
At 11:08 AM 11/18/2004, Alan C. Zack wrote:
One of the projects I worked on at the former Rockwell Intl (now part of
Boeing) was the MX Missile project. Down the hall from us was the
Minuteman labs. Going to the Minuteman Labs was like going to a
museum. The Minuteman guidance system used peanut tubes in it's circuitry.
Jim Miller wrote:
You might be right. Everything I saw was solid state but there may have
been something in there that was tube. It was the Minuteman system that we
were installing.
73, de Jim KG0KP
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Katz" <stevek@jmr.com>
To: "'Jim Miller'" <JimMiller@STL-Online.Net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today
I was in missile class in the Air Force in 1963 and the lab and course
was
entirely in tubes even though the missile was entirely in transistors.
The
adaptation was very short (minutes, maybe and hour) and said that
transistors worked like tubes except at lower voltages and power levels.
That was all there was to transistors !!! Not bad really for a class
that
hadn't been rewritten yet (and that may have been all the instructor
knew
at
that time).
73, de Jim KG0KP
[Steve Katz] I'll bet the missle wasn't "all transistors" in 1963.
The guidance and targeting systems used high voltage microwave tubes
throughout the 1970s, including SAMs and AAMs. Of course, a lot of those
late 1950s designs didn't actually reach production levels until the
seventies (no kidding). We were building (Army) Hawks designed in '63 at
Raytheon/Martin (forebody/aftbody) in 1978; the Patriot didn't go into
full
production until after that, and its acquisition system still used
tubes...ditto the Sidewinder, Sparrow, etc. -WB2WIK/6
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