MKV Hover Tests: I'm sure I've seen that same test before!

[elfs]

Everyone and his brother has been passing around this video of the Multiple Kill Vehicle missile defense system. As I watched it, my reaction was, "I know I've seen this before."

According to the news, there was a preliminary test firing in August of 2007, but I could swear that there was a similar demonstration of a caged, robotic attitude control rocket platform sometime earlier this decade. Am I hallucinating, or what?

Comments

[ewhac.livejournal.com]

You're not hallucinating; I remember seeing it, too. Sadly, I can't remember what it was called.

I dimly remember seeing it some time in the 1990's, and the gadget I saw was far more agile than the video of recent interest. I also remember seeing a wireframe 3D animation illustrating how it would work, rendered on an Amiga in Videoscape 3D. Maybe Allen Hastings knows more...

Hell... that doesn't look as impressive as some of the stuff Armadillo Aerospace has done at points.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Their quad-rocket platform they were working with for a'while moved fairly similairly to that, I thought. Hell, their gymbaled-single-rocket platform they've more-or-less settled on moves similairly for that matter.

Sure. Brilliant Pebbles.

[ideaphile.livejournal.com]

Same thing, in fact, just a new name and a deployabe design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=useVRm4eEL0

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