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What is Fractional Orbital Bombardment, and Why Is It Important?
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What is Fractional Orbital Bombardment, and Why Is It Important?
On 25 August 1969, the Soviet Union placed a regiment of R-36O missiles on duty at Baikonur Cosmodrome , giving the world its only known operational fractional orbital bombardment system, usually shortened to FOBS. It was not a science-fiction device and not a paper study. It was a deployed nuclear delivery system built to send a warhead into low Earth orbit, or close enough to orbital flight for strategic purposes, and then force it back down b…
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