Mx-2276 Advance Strategic Weapon System. Aerodynamics

Abstract

Check&J-. Date A~rpanw Rpq fl4zS~2.. practicability of the original booster-vehicle configurations for separation are made. It is recomended that when preliminary design of the system is begun, booster-vehicle combinations be put into aerodynamic test as soon as possible as it is believed this is the only way of eyaluating them in a sutfioiently quantitAtive manner. 2.3.7 Mdssi.le Trajectories Some approximate esti iates of the zero lift tfta-ectories of the MX-2276 miusile havo been ýide, assuming constant drag coefficientop to determine the line of s'.ght' angle from the carrier to the missile during the fall and the ti:ie and range increments between the time at which the oarritr passe; over the target and impact to the i4nsaile, These estimates were made to illustrate the meohanics of the mijsile drop and serve as preliminary design information for the missile tracking and guidance system.

Design Evolution and AHP-based Historiography of Lifting Reentry Vehicle Space Programs

“…54 Under the USAF designation MX-2276, BOMI addressed detailed technical assessment of vehicle's aerodynamics, structure, propulsion and trajectory analysis, providing valuable guidelines for an operational LRV. 55 Lessons learned during BOMI design development led the USAF to assign Bell with further investigation of a manned, hypersonic glide weapon system, under project BRASS in 1956. Bell improved on the BOMI design through wind tunnel tests and other experimental testing in propulsion, structures, aerothermodynamics and thermal management disciplines.…”