wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI) (01/31/89)
Reading this announcement and description of activities brought to mind an interesting idea: We had been extensively discussing, in past months, the possible use of those Pershing II missiles now being destroyed as part of the arms-limitation agreements. What better PR for the Army than to take one or two of those Pershings to this meet and set them off for the entertainment of the attendees? This would also allow the budding rocketeers to meet the Soviet observers and some of the actual hands-on military missile people, so it would be good "glasnost" PR for the USSR and a recruiting aid for the US. I guess the only thing that could give this a negative result is for the Pershing(s) they take to be duds or to be defective... Since they don't seem to have had any problems in destroying them up to now, that doesn't appear likely. Hmmm... Maybe I should write this up as a DA suggestion... Regards, Will Martin
rfc@briar.philips.com (Robert Casey;6282;3.57;$0201) (02/02/89)
Too bad that we couldn't have used some of these Pershing missile rockets to fly some sort of science payload (can they orbit something?). Have the Russians look at the payload and satisfy themselves that it is non-military and share the science data. Just an idea...
rjungcla@ihlpb.ATT.COM (R. M. Jungclas) (02/02/89)
>Reading this announcement and description of activities brought to mind >an interesting idea: We had been extensively discussing, in past months, >the possible use of those Pershing II missiles now being destroyed as >part of the arms-limitation agreements. What better PR for the Army than >to take one or two of those Pershings to this meet and set them off for >the entertainment of the attendees? This would also allow the budding >rocketeers to meet the Soviet observers and some of the actual hands-on >military missile people, so it would be good "glasnost" PR for the USSR >and a recruiting aid for the US. I'm positive that the attendees for any LDRS (Large and Dangerous Rocket Ship) meet will enjoy this, but because of regulatory concerns there are "rules" in place that are intended to prevent the mixing of professional/high power/model rockets. For example, model rockets and high power rockets are NOT SUPPOSE to be flown from same site within any 24 hour period. These rules are intended to keep a distinction in the minds of the public (and public officials). There are other impications from the "24 hour" rule that I won't discuss here. R. Michael Jungclas UUCP: att!ihlpb!rjungcla AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville, IL. Internet: rjungcla@ihlpb.att.com
elliston@rob.UUCP ( Keith Elliston) (02/02/89)
In article <Added.4XtQhoy00Ui3AIQk8=@andrew.cmu.edu>, wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI) writes: > part of the arms-limitation agreements. What better PR for the Army than > to take one or two of those Pershings to this meet and set them off for > the entertainment of the attendees? This would also allow the budding > rocketeers to meet the Soviet observers and some of the actual hands-on > military missile people, so it would be good "glasnost" PR for the USSR > and a recruiting aid for the US. > I may be a little naive, but sending up a pershing missile, even in this day and age of Glasnost, I would think that the russians would view thi this as being just a little questionable... I dont think that the powers that be would be amenable to this sort of experiment. Keith Elliston uunet!rob!elliston