I had heard about a vague connection between the two:
http://www.space1999.net/~eagle/Mark IX Hawk:
The Mark IX Hawk is a small, medium-to-long range fighter craft
developed as a deterrent to possible extraterrestrial attack. There
was a need for such a spacecraft during the UFO offensive of the mid-
1980s, when Earth's main line of defense was compact, one-man
fighters operated from the lunar base of Supreme Headquarters Alien
Defense Organization (SHADO), which is now part of Moonbase Alpha.
It became increasingly apparent that such short-range craft would be
inadequate in the event of a massive, concentrated attack, and plans
for a larger and more heavily armed fighter wee drafted. This new
attack craft, the Mark IX Hawk, was tested successfully in 1996 and
eight such vessels were commissioned by the Global Defense Command
in 1997. To cut launch time to the barest minimum, the eight Hawks
were maintained aboard the Centuri space dock, which was positdionel
between Earth and the Moon. Shortly after the Hawk Support Base on
the space dock was completed, the UFO attacks mysteriously stopped.
After two years of silence, in mid-1999, plans for a Hawk Support
Base on Moonbase Alpha were scrapped and the International Lunar
Commission began to imply that the Mark IX, which had never been
used against a UFO attack, was a gross waste of limited funds. Plans
were made to disassemble at least half the fleet and utilize their
components for other craft. It seemed that the aliens who had been
attacking Earth for so long had given up, but, for whatever reason,
the remaining Hawks were destroyed on September 13, 1999, when the
Centuri blew up during the breakaway of the Moon. The Mark IX Hawk
is essentially a two-man cockpit and life-support system mounted on
a single fusion engine and fuel tank. Strap-on boosters provide
acceleration of up to 20g, and dual weapon pods house computer-
targeted laser batteries, 16 independently activated missile silos
and two self-guiding torpedoes housing fusion warheads. All weapons
are operated manually by the gunner, or programmed to follow a
predetermined attack plan. In an emergency, the weapons pod and the
engine assembly can be jettisoned and the command module used as a
lifeboat.
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