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Old 04-21-2020, 06:59 AM
frognbuff frognbuff is offline
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Truly excellent find! So many sounding rockets I've never seen before. Also, one of the few images I've seen (just a cartoon of course, but still!) of the Casseur (Smasher) ballistic missile. I attached the only other image I've been able to find. Glad to see the French "owning up" to the fact the Pakistanis turned their sounding rockets into crude ballistic missiles (Hatf-1/Hatf-2). Kinda makes the whole MTCR thing look like less of a farce.

On the Tacite with an actual ogive nose (center of the three B&W photos) - is that airframe yellow? Gray? Red? I'm a terrible at judging colors on those old photos. I like the ogive nose and bold CNES/ONERA markings of that round! I have a balsa ogive almost the exact right length to build that guy out of BT-60...
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