Advanced manned strategic aircraft (AMSA) concepts range from advanced version of FB-111 with AMSA-research-derived propulsion and avionics, to larger, heavier longer-range split-altitude aircraft with supersonic capability and heavy weapons and penetration aids payload, to hypersonic strategic bomber boosted to edge of space by rocket and supersonic-burning ramjet combination; concept of long-range-and-endurance nuclear propelled aircraft, as well as spacecraft driven by controlled fission explosions is also reviewed; short-range attack missile (SRAM) and some of its basic attributes, tailored as key armament for FB-111.
Advanced strategic bombers
Space/Aeronautics
Space/Aeronautics ; 45 , n 6
1966
14 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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