[FPSPACE] Soviet Orion Battleship

[David Portree]

Larry:

 

I've been aware of this one; it seems to be based on an alternate history I wrote in the 1990s, though great minds work alike. Mine didn't see any combat, just exploration; an Orion accident at Baikonur brought the Soviets to the negotiating table before space battleships could leave the drawing boards. The 1963 ban on space nuclear tests was expanded a bit.

 

I don't think that the Soviets got any more serious about Orion concepts than we have, and probably not as serious as that. My alternate history was fanciful, though I did *try* to come up with a plausible origin for the competing U.S. and Soviet/Russian Orion-based space programs.

David S. F. Portree

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From: ljk4 at msn.com
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:35:16 -0400
Subject: [FPSPACE] Soviet Orion Battleship



No, it's not real (as far as I know), but imagine if the Soviets developed
their own Orion nuclear-pulse spacecraft and used it for war:
 
http://www.rhysy.net/DSF/index.php?gallery=.&image=Soviet%20Schematic%20final.jpg
 


Description of the Web site made by Rhys Taylor:
 
An alternative history universe in which Project Orion went ahead in the 1960's more or less as planned. However, it's now know that the Russians also had there own version of the project. Naturally, the launch of an Orion means the cold war continues. In this scenario, two fleets of super-Orion class battleships (~1 million tonnes each) engage near Callisto. The aim is for a pretty high level of realism. People complain about visible lasers and 
sound effects. These people are fools. 
All of the images here:
 
http://www.rhysy.net/DSF/
 
 
 
 		 	   		  
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