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Offline Archibald

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One of the few times Clark Kent flies in the Smallville series. I wonder - doesn't  the missile looks like a Titan II ? With a single W-53 warhead ?
« Last Edit: 03/18/2016 08:28 am by Archibald »
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Offline Ronpur50

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Re: smallville: Clark Kent versus a nuclear missile
« Reply #1 on: 03/18/2016 12:13 pm »
The payload and upperstage remind me of a Titan, the bottom reminds me of a Minuteman!

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Re: smallville: Clark Kent versus a nuclear missile
« Reply #2 on: 03/18/2016 05:09 pm »
The payload and upperstage remind me of a Titan, the bottom reminds me of a Minuteman!

I dunno, the second stage had a 4-engine cluster.  Doesn't match Titan, which had a single-engine stage 2...
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Re: smallville: Clark Kent versus a nuclear missile
« Reply #3 on: 03/18/2016 05:29 pm »
If memory serves, we had nothing but Titans (after all, Hutchinson is Smallville ;D).

So that looks like a Hollywood rocket. Very rare, one of a kind rocket.

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Re: smallville: Clark Kent versus a nuclear missile
« Reply #4 on: 03/18/2016 05:40 pm »
Naw -- this is a CGI rocket.  Not as rare as a Hollywood rocket.

You see, a Hollywood rocket can morph.  In one shot it looks exactly like a Saturn V, in the next like an old Atlas, the next like a Delta II or a Titan II.

Those are rare and hard to find, the morphing Hollywood rockets... ;)
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Re: smallville: Clark Kent versus a nuclear missile
« Reply #5 on: 03/18/2016 06:01 pm »
The payload and upperstage remind me of a Titan, the bottom reminds me of a Minuteman!

I dunno, the second stage had a 4-engine cluster.  Doesn't match Titan, which had a single-engine stage 2...

Sounds like a ... what *would* you call it?  Mixture?  Amalgam?  Pastiche, perhaps?

On reflection, I think Peter Schickele may have said it best:

"... 'hybrid' is the polite term ..."

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Re: smallville: Clark Kent versus a nuclear missile
« Reply #6 on: 03/26/2016 09:07 pm »
This is purely me but I would have thought that, given how thin-skinned RL rockets were, just Clark smashing handholds into the side of the hull would probably have caused the thing to break up due to aerodynamic forces acting on the hull breaches.

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The four-engine lower stage actually reminds me a bit of a Polaris SLBM I saw at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.
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