Feb 112013
 

The Redstone missile was a battlefield nuclear missile from the 1950s… a concept that doesn’t really exist anymore. Certainly not liquid fueled rockets, as the Redstone was; virtually all military rocketry these days is solid propellant. The Redstone would have required a great deal of time and effort to fuel and prepare for firing… as opposed to later missiles such as the Pershing, which, being solid fuel, was virtually point and click.

Still, this V-2-derived missile served as Americas first successful satellite launcher, the first vehicle to lob an American into space, and, in very modified form, as propellant tankage on the Saturn I series of boosters.

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Diagram comes from the website “My Army Redstone Missile Days” which has  a lot of good Redstone stuff.

 Posted by at 4:48 pm