The insane USAF space battleship that almost got built - Project Orion Battleship

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[enigma]

The Orion Space Battleship idea has a lot more in common with, "The Expanse" series, than it does with Star Trek.

[killman]

Fun fact there is an even more insane version of the Orion's propulsion system. It's called the nuclear salt-water rocket engine. It basically harnesses the power of a continuous nuclear detonation to produce hilarious amounts of thrust.

[AubriGryphon]

I learned about the Orion drive from Niven and Pournelle's sci-fi book Footfall, where humanity builds an Orion-type battleship called Michael to strike back against an alien force that holds the orbital high ground. Forget 5" guns, they pulled the 16" main guns off of the USS New Jersey!

[stefaneer]

My grandfather was a Star Trek fan from 1962 until the 90s, because he was really interested about the technology and the message behind the story of the series.

[icecraftgaming]

USAF: Coke we need your help
Coke: WHAT THE HELL

[Khether]

I love your models and animations! They are often some of the best renditions of the crafts that you can ever find!
This one in particular is the coolest Orion I've ever seen!

[versinussyrin]

I always liked the orion project with nukes because how stupidly insane it was.
Even a mind boggling 8 million ton monster was proposed with a 400 meter pusher plate for interstellar voyages
Just crazy, as at orions, the bigger it was, the better it got.

[lightspeedvictory]

Forgot to mention this earlier but from a pure tonnage/size perspective it’s more of a destroyer than a battleship. The role is also more that of a cruiser

[RegularEarthlingEngineer]

Hopefully the 21st century holds just as insane of projects as the 20th century dreamed to do.

[longdogmurph]

This spacecraft reminds me of the Realistic Space Warships made by artists on Twitter. Just that the propulsion needs booms.

[jdiluigi]

Cold war era concepts were awsome. for every 100 concepts we would get 1 test bed/prototype. And they would mostly be canceled because of cost. In the end we were left with stealth and the internet😁

[ReddwarfIV]

Casaba Howitzers use the nuclear shaped charge aimed at a blast plate to create a particle beam. I assumed that was why you mentioned them, since it's similar to phasers, but then you confused them with bomb-pumped X-ray lasers for some reason.

[fridaycaliforniaa]

I love the madness of the cold war projects 🥰

[captainyossarian]

It's scary, but as long as it was built in space or delivered to space via rocket booster, the radioactive particles from the explosions would disperse relatively quickly thanks to gravity/solarwind/etc.

[Jayjay-qeum]

This is a perfect ship for the Space Force.

[alexxbaudwhyn]

Was aware of the Orion nuke pusher plate ship for a long time, many other vids here for Orion, including test footage using conventional explosives to launch a small test ship.

New to me is the battleship, weapons payloads stuff

[captain_commenter]

Aliens: we come in peace

Humans: We don’t **Proceed to nuke the planet out of the solar system**

[IshijimaKairo]

I hear Casaba Howitzer, I get really excited.
Simple as that.

[dorsk]

You strait up have an XL-5, a WH40k, and the "it never was" meme references in under a minute... was not expecting that.

[Intrepid]

I mean, the original NX01 only had 85 Personel while being much bigger.
So, 120 is a good Number, still, must be quite cramped in there.