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Het seinhuis van Dalheim is gelukkig nog steeds in gebruik, anders was die inmiddels ook al gesloopt, woensdag 21 juni 2017.
I just picked up this nifty 35mm slr from eBay. Centon was a brand of cameras sold by a chain of stores in Great Britain called Jessops. This Centon DF-300 is actually just a rebranded Minolta X-300. When Minolta moved one of their factories to China, they allowed the Chinese camera company Seagull a special license to manufacture the Minolta X-300 and rebrand it for other companies. In addition to the Centon DF-300, I've found a dozen other names this camera was also produced with, including the Seagull DF-300.
The Minolta X-300 was also known as the Minolta X-370 when it was marketed in the United States and Canada. I have a friend who just bought two Minolta X-370s. I loaned her some of my Minolta gear to try the first one out with.
As the Cold War drew near its end, NATO realized that the potential for a nuclear missile strike on a major city via ICBM was greater than ever. It was realized then that an orbital platform had to be developed to combat this threat. The US Office of Naval Research was ordered to build a defense platform that could be stationed above major cities to respond quickly and effectively to shoot down an inbound ICBM. The result was a new type of hybrid fighter, the DF-07, which is propelled by both conventional jet turbines and rockets. Jets propel the fighter into the upper stratosphere, where rockets take over, propelling the fighter into a geostationary orbit above a major city. If a nuclear strike is inbound to that city, the DF-07 will activate its rockets to return to the atmosphere, where it will use missiles and an armor-peircing machine gun to attempt to shoot down the nuclear missile before it detonates. With that accomplished, the fighter returns to orbit, or, if out of fuel or ammo, touches down in an ocean for resupply. This DF-07 is the first weapons platform ever developed for functionality both in the atmosphere and in orbit. To prevent the necessity for life-support, the DF-07 is remotely piloted from a naval base on the ground. Its dive-bombing tactics earned it the callsign "Peregrine," after the world's fastest bird, which dive-bombs prey at speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour, much as this "starfighter" descends on a nuclear missile. Its effectiveness in tests with dud missiles led to full scale production, and a DF-07 fighter now sits in geostationary orbit above every major city in the US, Canada, and Western Europe.
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This is my take on a real-world starfighter, which kinda looks like the child of an F-14 and the Space Shuttle. This is the role I would see a starfighter taking in the modern era. Hope you enjoy, good luck to everyone in the contest, and please comment!