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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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05-19-2011, 11:12 AM
Stormgard
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
zuludelta
Good catch, I forgot all about Recoil. It's interesting how many prototype technologies actually made it into Ron Rudat's toy designs (although I don't think any of it was designated as controlled unclassified information... he was given guided tours at Natick and other military R&D sites during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s and presumably, what he was allowed to see for research purposes was stuff that was available for viewing to the American public upon request). Off the top of my head, of the 1980s Rudat stuff, here are the real-world 1960s/1970s/1980s military prototypes that never went into full production or beyond the testing phase, but made it onto GI Joe as "Easter Eggs":
USMC experimental T-pattern camo
: as seen on
Repeater
and
Recoil
FMC XR311
: adapted in GI Joe as the
VAMP
Grumman X-29
: adapted in GI Joe as the
Conquest X-30
Lockheed M-21
(with piggyback D-21 reconnaissance drone): adapted in GI Joe as the
Cobra Night Raven
Martin-Marietta X-23 PRIME
: adapted in GI Joe as the
Defiant Space Shuttle
, later re-packaged as the
Crusader Space Shuttle
Sikorsky S-72 X-Wing testbed
: adapted in GI Joe as the
Skystorm X-Wing Chopper
Some people will probably argue that the
Phantom X-19
was based on a real-world prototype, but given all existing and reliable evidence, the supposed X-19 developed by the Air Force is a myth (the Air Force's top secret "Have Blue" stealth technology testing platform looked nothing at all like the various "X-19" renditions based on speculation). I wrote a detailed post (with links to images) about the "F-19" myth's origins
here
if any of you are interested in reading it.
There's also the experimental US light tank design from the 70s or early 80s, with an unmanned turret that was introduced as the MBT Mauler. I forget the name, but I know I've seen pictures of it - the resemblance is uncanny and cannot be incidental.
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