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Secret American Space Planes to Dominate Planet Earth
Anomalia.Ru ^ | FR Post 12-6-2002 (16:00 2002-11-05) | Translated by Dmitry Sudakov

Posted on 12/06/2002 6:35:48 AM PST by vannrox

16:00 2002-11-05
Secret American Space Planes to Dominate Planet Earth

The USA has been working on secret, new- generation space planes In the beginning of the 1990s, Russian intelligence uncovered the fact that the USA was testing a super-secret plane at one of its airbases. Russian agents attempted to see the new object with their own eyes and take pictures of it, but all attempts failed. The Americans provided incredible security for their secret weapon, and they tested the plane only at night. However, Russian agents managed to get some information about the new plane, which the USA calls Aurora, in honor of the Goddess of the Dawn.

The mystery aircraft is capable of flying very high, at a height of 40 and more kilometers. Even the latest pursuit planes cannot fly so high. The Aurora plane also possesses fantastic supersonic speed, the so- called 6M speed, as scientists call it. One M is equal to 340 meters a second. In other words, Aurora can fly at a speed of two kilometers a second, and this is not the limit. This speed is achieved due to extremely powerful engines and the special design of the plane's hull and wings.

The aircraft was constructed based on Stealth technology, which was selected by the American defense industry long ago. The technology poses great difficulties for both ground and air radar systems.

A picture of the real Aurora aircraft is even more rare than a picture of an UFO. So far, Russia has only one picture of the mysterious American plane. The picture was taken by a Russian intelligence officer at the moment when the Aurora plane was refueling in the air. Later, it became known that before the “flying tank of fuel” (KC-135 aircraft) refueled the Aurora, a spy plane flew across Russia from east to west and was not detected by any radar systems.

The Americans invented a new aircraft, which is almost like a rocket. The new plane was invented by American defense scientists with an eye towards the future. The most powerful pursuit planes can fly at heights of 35-40 kilometers. Russia is capable matching its strength with the USA in this respect. Russia has such aircraft: Su-2711, MiG-29, and MiG-31. However, these planes can only fly in the near-Earth environment, whereas the environment between the Earth’s atmosphere and space is still vacant, so to speak. That is why, the development of the near-Earth space environment weapon is so relevant for defense. Who gets there first becomes the winner.

Here, we are talking about totally new kinds of aircraft: spy planes, fighter planes, transport planes, ect. They will be able to fly from the atmosphere into space and then return to Earth. The Americans have been working on this kind of aircraft for years already, developing several “star wars” projects. The United States has been designing and testing such planes for a long time. They already have the X-33, X-34, X-37, and X- 38 planes.

X-33: This supersonic aircraft was designed based upon up-to-date titanic alloys. It is equipped with oxygen- hydrogen jet engines. This plane can reach speeds up to 4,420 meters per second. Graphite and ceramic (thermostable) technologies are used in its engines. Some of this technology was either bought or stolen from Russia. The maximum flight height is 120 kilometers.

X-34: A more modern supersonic aircraft. It is equipped with unique electronic devices and has a special heat-shielding coating. One of its peculiar features is the fact that the plane takes off from an aircraft-carrier, which is also a plane, not a vessel. The X-34 can reach speeds up to 5,440 meters a second. The maximum height is up to 150 kilometers.

Supersonic aircraft of the X class can be both unmanned and piloted planes, with vertical and horizontal takeoffs. It was officially reported that such planes are meant to considerably reduce the amount of money spent on delivering cargo into space. At the present moment, one such delivery costs 22 thousand dollars per one kilo of cargo. These new aircraft will definitely serve defense purposes, such as launching military satellites into orbit. Supersonic space planes can also be equipped with super-powerful telescopes and other equipment. Scientists and engineers are developing ways to equip these planes with missiles, laser weapons, and so on.

In other words, America is working on the first ever space army, which would provide the United States with complete domination in near-Earth orbit. It will not be possible for any anti-missile defense complexes to hit such planes, as they will be completely out of reach. The American space army will be able to hit any target on planet Earth at any moment.

Soviet engineers tried to challenge the Americans and designed a unique aircraft called the Buran. Unfortunately, the aircraft proved to be unsuccessful, and competition with the USA failed. When military opposition between the USSR and the USA was over, the Buran became a part of an exhibition in Moscow’s Park of Culture. The first Soviet space aircraft became a dull memory of a bygone power and might-have- been hopes.

Major General Sergey Kolganov, an academician of the Russian Space Academy, said that the USA's work on the development of supersonic space aircraft poses yet another potential threat to Russia. “I doubt that Russia is ready to fight with these American space planes. Some of our anti-missile defense complexes can hit targets up to 100 kilometers high. However, these new American aircraft can fly higher. Russia has very good ideas for defense, I am certain of that. The Americans have not even dreamed about them. However, they are only ideas, nothing more. Our scientists are not working on any projects that might counteract the American space planes,” Kolganov said.

Anomalia.Ru
Translated by Dmitry Sudakov


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: airplane; bush; kgb; might; military; nasa; nsa; orbit; power; rocket; space; technology; war
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To: carjic
I can't believe Clinton would not have trashed it. Spent the money elsewhere or gave the whole plan to China.

The Pentagon "hid" the expenses under adult web site access fees and Clinton enthusiastically signed for them.

24 posted on 12/06/2002 7:48:35 AM PST by N. Theknow
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To: vannrox
Not a surprise. It would be a surprise if we wer not working on such a plane.
26 posted on 12/06/2002 7:53:32 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: vannrox; All
One of its peculiar features is the fact that the plane takes off from an aircraft-carrier, which is also a plane, not a vessel.

Did anyone catch this little tidbit?? An airborne aircraft carrier? If true, this would be WAY bigger than some little ol' space plane. Notice how it was just casually dropped into the story and nothing else was ever mentioned about it? Wierd.

27 posted on 12/06/2002 7:55:33 AM PST by Space Wrangler
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To: carjic
only wish Bubba stood corrected... in front of a firing squad. God-damned Traitor.
28 posted on 12/06/2002 7:55:37 AM PST by demosthenes the elder
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To: vannrox
Wait till the Ruskies get a load of the US Government's
TR3-B. This particular legend sounds unbelievable, but if you've read as many credible reports of sightings of a huge triangular shaped craft as I have you might not be so skeptical. Anybody remember what several hundred people saw
over Pheonix a couple years ago?

The TR3-B is reported to be triangular shaped and as big as
600 feet per side. The enormous dimensions were necessary to
house the gravity-distortion technology. The crew compartment and reactor of the TR3-B are surrounded by a Magnetic Flux Field Disrupter (MFD). The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field that disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity 89% on the central portion of the triangular craft, (containing crew compartment, nuclear reactor, etc.), which is where most of its weight would be. As a result the craft can travel Mach 9 or faster vertically or horizontally, propelled by the nuclear thermal rocket engine. It will reportedly operate in atmosphere or out.

The Magnetic Field Disrupter is contained in a circular
accelerator ring, two feet wide, containing a mercury-based
super-conductive plasma doped with barium, calcium and
gold. The mercury-based plasma is pressurized at 250,000
atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and
accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create superconductive plasma
with the resulting gravity disruption.

The power to run the plasma ring is derived from a small nuclear reactor housed directly under the crew compartment at the top of the aircraft. The crew compartment rotates
360 degrees as the plane can be flown in any direction
in regards to aspect. The nuclear reactor also fires the
multi-node rocket thrusters that are housed in each corner of the triangular craft.

The TR3-B is a reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Below altitudes of 100,000 feet it goes slightly less than Mach 9. Above 100,000 feel altitude its speed is much faster.

I have seen one grainy picture alleged to be this craft. I
might be crazy but I wouldn't be surprised if it exists.


For Your Enjoyment,

PresidentFelon
29 posted on 12/06/2002 8:00:32 AM PST by PresidentFelon
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To: vannrox
Here is FAS.org's page on the Aurora

Doesn't suprise me all that much, since we've been working on lifting bodies for decades now, as well as ramjet engines. Also needed has been a replacement for the SR-71 Blackbird.

30 posted on 12/06/2002 8:01:16 AM PST by Liberal Classic
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To: Space Wrangler
To my knowledge, the only technology that we are missing to make a plane like this are the materials and engines. Such an airplane would most likely require a hybrid engine capable of both breathing air and using oxidizer, and most likely a scramjet (which isn't what we could call reliable to our current level of technology).

A carrier plane, or flying aircraft carrier or whatever you want to call it, has already been developed for several x-planes in the testing of concepts leading to the creation of the space shuttle. Also, the space shuttle is carried by piggy back across the country onboard a modified 7X7 plane, I just forget which one. Although the shuttle can't launch from it, it wasn't designed to.
31 posted on 12/06/2002 8:01:32 AM PST by anobjectivist
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To: vannrox
In other words, America is working on the first ever space army, which would provide the United States with complete domination in near-Earth orbit. It will not be possible for any anti-missile defense complexes to hit such planes, as they will be completely out of reach. The American space army will be able to hit any target on planet Earth at any moment.

This author needs to lay off Star Wars movies. If we were all so powerful, how did 9-11 happen? The Russians have always had an inferiority complex and give us too much credit.

32 posted on 12/06/2002 8:03:33 AM PST by xJones
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To: Norman Arbuthnot
I'd think it'd orbit backwards and inverted like the shuttle, unlike this artist's conception. You'd launch misiles/bombs out of the payload bays...and your cockpit would look down on the planet -for whatever it's worth- so the pilots aren't staring off into space.

And this pic shows engines burning lotsa fuel, but you don't need engines to "fly", by definition, if you're in Near Earth Orbit. You just need them to kick you back down out of orbit.

I could see a launch into NEO, circle the globe a coupla times, reconoiter the target, then next orbit, drop yer payload. Moonraker.


33 posted on 12/06/2002 8:03:46 AM PST by sam_paine
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To: vannrox
Whether or not Aurora exists, the "refueling photo" is apparently a fake (but don't tell the Russians).

From one analysis of Aurora (the photo in question is about 3/4 of the way down the page):
http://www.fas.org/irp/mystery/aurora.htm

"It was recently reported than on 27 September 1995 David Morris of Walsall, Cornwall UK took a picture of a triangular shaped plane being refueled by a KC-135, and flanked by a pair of F-111s. The unknown aircraft appeared to be about three-quarters the size of the KC-135. This picture has been widely distributed. However, the "refuelling" picture is a hoax -- it was montaged by Bill Rose for the October 1995 issue of Astronomy Now (UK) magazine. There, it is captioned "A simulation of the refuelling of the top secret 'Aurora'. Photo composition by Bill Rose"
34 posted on 12/06/2002 8:05:53 AM PST by PAR35
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To: anobjectivist
I haven't kept up on the aurora rumors, but i seem to recall speculation that this thing had propulsion based on using the entire aft surface of the body as an aerospike-like reaction surface, burning fuel and deriving massive thrust as a sort of "external combustion" engine - supposedly very efficient at extremely high altitudes.
35 posted on 12/06/2002 8:08:02 AM PST by demosthenes the elder
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To: carjic
I met a few military officers during the Clinton administration and to a man they hated his guts. If they could keep secrets I think they would have.
36 posted on 12/06/2002 8:08:25 AM PST by katana
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To: sam_paine
Sounds so cool. (Even if it is fictional).
37 posted on 12/06/2002 8:09:49 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: anobjectivist
I guess I was imagining an actual airborne platform for launch AND recovery, but after further analysis you're probably right. The plane is merely dropped from another plane and then lands on it's own on the ground somewhere. I know Germany had launch AND recovery systems for light aircraft from derigibles pre-WWII, and of course we all know that the early x-planes of Chuck Yeager vintage were dropped from B-29's. Like I said, I guess my imagination got the best of me because the image of a massive 'aircraft carrier' floating in the sky is what came to mind! Oh well, I'm back firmly on the ground now! ;>))
38 posted on 12/06/2002 8:10:03 AM PST by Space Wrangler
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To: ravingnutter
the link leads to a dead site. it is one of those damned TRIPOD sites, so no surprise there.
39 posted on 12/06/2002 8:10:39 AM PST by demosthenes the elder
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To: The Shootist
The Aurora rumor has been around since the 70's. See Jane's Defense Weekly.

Yep. At one point I was an Aeronautical Engineering student at Embry-Riddle and I remember reading in Aviation Week and Space Technology, aka Aviation Speak and Space Tattletale, in late '81 or early '82 that one of the major aerospace manufacturers had solved the problem of skin friction and was testing a new aircraft capable of 25 times the speed of sound at sea level.

Not too many years later they retired the Blackbird. Sure, there are a lot of DOD satellites looking at us, but there is no replacement for recon right now. Is is possible that the Blackbird was retired when the Aurora came on line?

40 posted on 12/06/2002 8:13:08 AM PST by Thermalseeker
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