The Soviets began work on this two-stage system on March 16, The second proposal came from the legendary designer Sergei P. He began preliminary work on Global Rocket No.
The third proposal came from Mikhail K. Yangel, whose RO was approved for development on April 16, The three-stage system weighed tons fully fueled. As dawned, all three designers had produced required hardware, but none of the systems had yet flown. The Strategic Rocket Forces selected the Yangel article as the most promising system and stopped the other two programs. Yangel was soon under pressure to produce.
The system was tested at the Tyuratam missile range and from launch silos. Operationally, the missile was to be silo-based. At Tyuratam, the 2nd Testing Directorate led a series of test launches beginning in December The SS-9 used its first and second stages to reach an orbital plane, with each stage being discarded as it used up its fuel. The flight generally followed a southerly near-polar path.
The payload, after passing over the polar region, would fly northward over the Southern Hemisphere, putting the warhead on track to hit targets in the central US. A slightly higher inclination would get the warhead to West Coast targets; a little lower would hit the East Coast. During the coasting phase, just before de-orbit, the vehicle would initiate a pitch maneuver to reorient itself for re-entry. The retro-rocket would fire for one minute, changing the plane of flight from orbital to ballistic.
The warhead would then separate from the RV and continue on its trajectory until impact. There was a period in to get the system configured, followed in by a robust firing program, which prepared crews for operations. The orbital missile was first deployed in Moscow saw this mainly as a problem of semantics.
It claimed that the system would never complete a full orbit and thus would be in compliance with the letter of the international accords. The Kremlin continued developing FOBS to deliver thermonuclear bombs via a low-trajectory, low-visibility route. Two more battalions joined the first. Together, they comprised the 98th Missile Brigade. In a sense the FOBS combined with the glider is not much different from a reusable space vehicle.
In fact, China denied reports that it tested an orbital weapon and stated they only tested a space plane. The idea behind FOBS is, a warhead is put into a stable orbit and it deorbits over the target. If the target and the launch position is lined up and the warhead keeps going round, it will complete a circle. Obviously, with the earth moving during this, it is more of a spiral than a ring, but the horizontal movement is countered in such a way that the warhead still goes over the target.
More importantly, the warhead can remain in orbit for days or months so that when the weapon deorbits and attacks its target or simply explodes in orbit, an EMP pulse is generated, which initiates an attack.
Detecting and Destroying a FOBS attack The first sign of a FOBS attack could be what was initially thought as a satellite deorbiting to land or fly low over your territory, which is usually too late. Once detected interceptor missiles can be launched from multiple directions at once thereby increasing the chances of an intercept.
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center. Later during the war both Rebels and Imperials ordered orbital strikes against each other forces on planets like Hoth , Tatooine , Sullust , Endor [1] and Jakku.
This tactic was to be used during the Battle of Hoth by the Imperial Navy. Lord Vader had planned to surprise attack the Rebel Alliance by jumping in to the Hoth system from hyperspace secretly and destroying the base via orbital bombardment, but failed to do so when Admiral Kendal Ozzel jumped too close to the system.
This alerted the Rebels, who in return activated their shield generator , causing the anger of Vader, who blamed Ozzel for stupidity and Force choked him upon General Maximilian Veers reporting the blunder.
Afterwards he promoted Firmus Piett to the rank of Admiral. After the death of Emperor Sheev Palpatine , Messenger droids were sent to numerous Imperial officers bearing a hologram of the late Emperor, who commanded them to execute his final command, Operation: Cinder , [10] an orbital bombardment campaign [11] that ordered the purging and destruction of multiple targeted worlds.
During the Liberation of Kashyyyk , Grand Moff Lozen Tolruck ordered three Imperial -class Star Destroyers to bombard the surface of the planet once he realized the planet's Wookiee rebellion had gotten out of hand. A Mandator IV -class Siege Dreadnought , the Fulminatrix , opened fire on the evacuated base from orbit with its Orbital autocannons , completely destroying it.
While the Resistance had already left the planet, General Armitage Hux nonetheless ordered the fleet to bombard the planet to set an example. Wookieepedia Explore. Star Wars.
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