Posted by Christian J.-2 on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Real-life-SHADO-tp1510796p1510838.html

Thian Raven wrote:

> Placing the silos or missile stores
> next to the surface base would be suicidal.
> Weapons stores are kept well away.

That makes sense.

> the chutes drop to a hughspeed shuttle
> car that takes the pilots to their ships
> a short distance away from the base.

But in this case you can't be space born within two minutes as
Straker demands.

Rob Neal wrote:

> My other thought was, given they fell
> via a chute, how the hell did they get back
> out of the interceptors once they got back??

Er...on foot? ;-)

But as you wrote it's all been made to look flashy, but nobody's
really thought this through. Think of Sky 1: how would it dock on
Skydiver after its mission? On the assumption that this should work
properly and above all quick.

Christian