[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 lo
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 was that knew full
Might have had a klystron and small magnetron for radar guidance. Did you see any waveguides? Keith NM5G You might be right. Everything I saw was solid state but there may have been something in ther
Author: "James C. Hall, M.D." <nwtcc@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:50:58 -0600
Hello: This has been a great thread ! I was born in '56, but still had to learn tube stuff in electronics class in H.S. I am reminded on the pilot that defected from the USSR and flew his MiG to Japa
Folks: I believe we (The West and its Allies) even ridiculed the backwardness of the then-Soviet design. Imagine - vacuum tubes, of all things! However, when our Intel folks (the Govt agency, not the
The Phoenix air-to-air missle, designed in the early 60's used a klystron transmitter with a pulse modulator tube which resembled a 4X250 without the cooling fins (liquid-cooled). I recall the design
No radar on Minuteman - all inertial guidance, Sperry gyros and solid state control to the nozzles - once it was disconnected from the hole, it was GONE. 73, de Jim KG0KP we levels. those at any any
Author: "Richard M. Gillingham" <rmoodyg@bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:20:33 -0500
Titan I used radar for guidance to engine cutoff.. And a RemRand Agena computer in the LCF to do the heavy thinking. Lots and lots of vacuum tubes. Cabinets and cabinets of 'em. And drum memory... Ge
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 t
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 worke