To: ChildOfThe60s
Honorable Mention to the original 'Snark' SM-62A, first generation of ground launched cruise missiles.
2 posted on
03/10/2007 12:00:51 PM PST by
mkjessup
("ahhh don't feel noways tired...ahhh've come too faaaaaar...from whar ahhh started from...!")
To: mkjessup
Trivial knowledge note! Fleming's Dr No was written after several Snarks went awry. They left the Cape and landed in the Brazilian Jungle instead of the splash down rea of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
Good book. Bond, James Bond!
The Snark unlike the Bomarc was never operational since the liquid fueld IRBMs filled the bill in the late 50s until the Atlas came along!
To: mkjessup
Wondered if any one remembered this one but me. Recalling from my mispent youth, not a great sucess as i recall, something about "snark infested waters".
barbra ann
31 posted on
03/10/2007 2:06:31 PM PST by
barb-tex
(Why replace the IRS with anything?)
To: mkjessup
There were many comments about the "Snark infested waters" off Cape Canaveral back in the early '60s.
33 posted on
03/10/2007 2:38:07 PM PST by
stboz
To: mkjessup
You've got that right, with the JATO.
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