air-launched

• “It was basically like an air-launched Falcon 1; a small payload, 7 million dollar rocket.”

  Mike Griffin's Closing Statement - NASA Watch

• “They include land and air-launched missiles with a range of less than 500 kilometers - so called “battlefield weapons.””

  Voice of America: Will Washington, Moscow Discuss Short-Range Nuclear Weapons?

• “While scientists have long studied the principles of air-launched rockets—Mr. Rutan recalls beginning preliminary work on such a project as long ago as 1991—Stratolaunch Systems Inc., as the new venture is called, still hasn't firmed up critical design details.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Paul Allen, Supersizing Space Flight

• “Unlike conventional rockets that blast off from a pad, air-launched systems similar to the one Mr. Allen wants to put together are designed to deliver a broad range of satellites to space without the constraints of weather or optimal times and locations to try to reach specific orbits.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Paul Allen, Supersizing Space Flight

• “Despite pledging over $100 billion to maintain and modernize nuclear delivery systems, the plan makes a commitment only to a next-generation submarine not to a next-generation bomber, ballistic missile, or air-launched cruise missile.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The New Start Treaty: Time for a Careful Look

• “Today, even if you throw in all of Russia's 540 long-range missiles, and its possible 856 air-launched cruise missiles (all limited by the new treaty), Russia still does not have more than 1700 offensive missiles in its entire inventory.”

  The Huffington Post: Joe Cirincione: Romney's Worst Foreign Policy Mistake

• “A separate "tactical directive," he said, was designed to govern the use of air-launched weapons "because, of course, if you drop a bomb on a house, if you're not sure who's in it, you can kill a lot of innocent civilians in a hurry.”

  The Washington Post: Senate confirms Gen. Petraeus as new Afghan war commander

• “In preparation for a suborbital jaunt aboard an air-launched rocketship, passengers this month are to report to a private training institute in Pennsylvania known as the National Aerospace Training and Research Center, or NASTAR.”

  It’s Training Time for Space Tourists | Impact Lab

• “Bombs and air-launched missiles, guided by laser bemas, infrared images and television pictures, slammed into target after target, erasing memories of embarrassing misses in earlier attacks on Libya and Panama.”

  Newsweek: A New Kind Of Warfare

• “One is a vehicle about the size of a corporate jet that would be air-launched from a carrier aircraft similar to a 747, More than 30 years ago the air force regularly flew the air-launched X-15 to the boundary of orbit, at a negligible cost per mission.”

  Newsweek: Nasa's Space Station Zero

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