The U-2 and RQ-4 "Global Hawk" recon plane and Pegasus-rocket can be an excellent couple for launching satellites.

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The U-2 and RQ-4 "Global Hawk" recon plane and Pegasus-rocket can be an excellent couple for launching satellites.

One very good idea for cheap spaceflight is to connect the U-2 Recon plane, and Pegasus rocket. The idea is very simple, and it is that the small Pegasus rocket can be equipped with wings, and it can put on the rack, where is installed the wheels. Then the U-2 recon plane would pull the Pegasus-rocket to the maximum altitude by using the rope, and the technology, what is used in this idea is similar, what is used with the sailplane.

The U-2 plane would pull the Pegasus to the maximum altitude, and then the rope will be released. Then the Pegasus rocket would start the engine, and the idea is that this rocket would have more weight in the tail, and the nose would rise upwards automatically. That effect is important because it avoids the hit to the plane because the U-2 is not so fast moving aircraft as fighters are. And it cannot dive so fast as the fighters can. The rope must be very long, and that can be made by the most modern materials. That makes the launching safer.

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The thing is that the wings would be similar, what is used in the cruise missiles, and they would also allow the gliding. The reason, why the rocket must pull the nose up is avoiding the aircraft. In fact, this mission to pull the Pegasus rocket can also give to the RQ-4 "Global Hawk" drone aircraft. That capacity can be used to launch small size satellites when there is a need for fast overflight operations, what the opponent should not predict, and those overflights might be surprised because they can come from every direction on the Earth. This aircraft- missile combination can give the USAF global ASAT capacity.

In this scenario, the small-size drones, what can fly extreme high altitude would tug the ASAT missiles, what can be actually the Pegasus rockets, Those modified missiles are equipped with the ASAT warheads, and they can release their cargo anywhere on this planet. This would be a very interesting option for the lightweight ASAT weapons, which can hit also against the higher altitude targets than the satellites, what is flying in the LEO (Low Earth Orbiter).

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The extreme high flying drone or manned aircraft would be a very good thing in the interceptor missions.

The extreme high flying drone or manned aircraft would be a very good thing in the interceptor missions.


High flying stratospheric aircraft can be a deadly surprise for any target in the world. It can be used in the operations as the laser platform, what can aim the laser-guided weapons to the target, or shoot them down by using the DEW:s (Directed Energy Weapons). The thing is that modern smart bombs are deadly even they are small sized, and if the aircraft like U-2 or "Global Hawk" drone would be equipped even with small size GPS-bomb, can they be deadly against almost any target in the world.

Even if the smart bomb size is less than 100 kilograms, they would cause a horrifying situation, if they are hitting the enemy headquarters. That means that the miniature anti-tank guided bombs can also use in the strategic missions, and they can be dropped to oil refineries, and ammo dumps as well in the enemy radio stations.

But those aircraft can also have cannons, what are equipped with anti-tank grenades. The use of those gunships could be that they can shoot the targets like other aircraft in the airborne, or nail them on the runways, and in some rumors, the CIA has been created the special cannon, what uses 25-30 mm cartridge, but the projectile would be like a normal bullet and the idea is that this high flying gunship could play that the snipers are slipped in the area.

I don't know how successful those weapons would be, and has anyone of them really installed on the U-2 or TR-1 aircraft, but the new Predator-III drones has the laser, what has been got the improvisation from those CIA gunships, what mission would be fly above other aircraft, and shoot them down from above by using cannon fire.  In fact, if one single 30 mm. HEAT (hollow grenade) would hit any aircraft, would that cause the destruction of the targeted aircraft. If the cannon would have an electric mechanism, that can shoot the single shots or series of grenades.

When we are thinking about the laser, that have boon installed in Predator III and probably in Global Hawks, that laser's primary mission would destroy the incoming missiles, and the targeting that system would happen by using the thermal image of the missile. The thing, what makes this process quite easy is that the rocket motor leaves the very bright thermal image. In some rumors, two carbon dioxide lasers would be in installing opposite ways in the body of the Global Hawks, and that allows them to target the 360 degrees area under the aircraft.

The nickname of those drones could be "Tarantella hawk". The laser ray would conduct to the target by using mirrors, which makes possible to use larger and more powerful lasers. Those high flying drones can fly above other aircraft and shoot them with those directed energy weapons, what can cut the wings off the aircraft. And under the F-22 and F-35 interceptors is planned to install a semiautomatic version of this system.

This laser can also installed in bombers and Lockheed-Martin HAA (High-Altitude Airships) and other Blimps, what can control the atmosphere around some city. That airship can hang in the sky, and shoot the cruise missiles down by using lasers or microwaves, what are other suitable weapons for DEW (Directed Energy Weapons). That laser can destroy the incoming missiles or other targets independently or it can be controlled by the pilot. The modern computer technology can allow using the image recognition systems in that weapon, which can target it in any hostile object, what that thing sees.