The View From the Inside

International Asymmetric Biowarfare analyst for Abel Danger

Sir Oliver Klosov

I haven't always been a social pariah...

I worked inside the military industrial complex for Pratt and Whitney Space propulsion in liquid, solid and electric propulsion. This was back in the early 2000's. I also had lab space at Caltech at the Keck material science department after verifying to the head of Keck that Hudson's method produced a new state of matter in platinum metals was real and made a sample of transformed gold loose 200% of its gravity weight in a TGA-7 after annealing it under argon.

So this set up allowed me to have the capability to address the Russian military industrial superiority in rocket weaponry. 

I was introduced to the problem of inadequate American propellants by the Head of research at Coyote canyon - Pratts Skunk works - that they were stymied by the fact that somehow the Russian R77 Vympel - (NATO classification A6 Adder) air-to-air missile went twice as far as our AARAM missile and only weighted 300 pounds more. 

R77's loaded on Russian Jet 

The propellant that everyone in the world was using then and still are is RDX and Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB). At the same time the Karpov and Seminov institutes of chemistry and physics were letting our CIA spies think that a saturated aluminum component, Alane AlH4, was their secret ingredient.

When Pratt blew up their 600 gallon mixer at San Jose, they lost the Minute Man rocket program for safety violations and their contracts were transitioned to Thiokol and Aerojet and ended Pratt's participation in national defense. During the transition I met with Admiral Cohen of the Office of Naval Research and a congressman I knew for coffee at the Four Seasons in Georgetown with the idea of producing Alane to see if it was in fact what they are/were using or if it was a 'red herring.'

After hearing my proposal the admiral set up a meeting with Juda Goldwasser, the head of ONR projects on my proposal to recreate Alane at my lab at Caltech and they had me submit a proposal to that end. I 'won' a $100k SIBR (small investment in business research) grant to fund the work and I went at it at my lab to no avail.

So, being frustrated and not giving up, I used my contact, that same congressman, to have access to the stock pile of CIA spy data taken out of Russia at the Adams reading library in the Library of Congress to see what the spies had found and sure enough they had brought back the old, very dangerous, method of making Alane. On the last day on that cold February day I found another book that was tucked away that revealed an invention the Russians had come up with.

The problem was not the propellants the problem was the way they were used in Russian rockets. The Russians at Almaz Corporation, the company that produces the R77 were bragging about how they were then (and now) using the 'new physics' of nano ingredients. Burn rates were higher when the entire mass of propellant is exhibiting surface effects. Meaning the mass of propellant was the same as the first layer of burn throughout the mass of propellant.

Now, back to the mixer explosion in San Jose.

The American manufactures of propellant, Aerojet, Thiokol and Pratt were using paddle mixers to gently stir these highly reactive ingredients and even a slight scrape of the paddles on the mixing tank walls or a mis fitting tank lid can, and did, cause an explosion that blew up the mixer and the building it was in.

In the book I found at the Adams reading library I found that the Russians use a mixer that have no paddles. Instead they had, and still use, a vacuum chamber that has an empty rocket motor propellant casing wrapped by a liquid nitrogen cold wall. Inside the chamber, RDX and HTPB is heated to make it into a vapor. Using the first law of thermodynamics - hot flows to cold - the propellant ingredients are molecularly mixed in layers that are deposited onto the surface of the cooled rocket motor case. And because it's now all 'nano sized ingredients packed far closer to each other it adds 300 pounds more propellant in the same volume and answers the question why these similar rockets have dramatically different performance characteristics.

It was indeed a red herring to the nth degree!

Naturally this is why our air-to-air rockets are unable to match the distance to target as the Russian planes armed with R77's. They are always outside our kill zone and we are always inside theirs. And F16's entering Ukraine will be brought down.

And it gets better.

The whole series of S-300, S-400, S-500 and their new S-550 surface-to-outer space rockets use the same propellant.

Iran, China and Russia rockets are loaded with this far superior means of delivering a lesson to the paper tiger in the room and that doesn't even begin to address their advances in electronic counter measures and scalar warfare devices.

After this I went to Thiokol and Aerojet but they didn't listen or interested in achieving parity...and look what a mess they are in now.

-Klosov

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