frank wrote:
The thing that could really ruin your day is getting in the way of a
ICBM/SLBM MIRV warhead test:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...y_vehicles.jpg

Pat


Its at Kwajalein. There are better pictures around, guys that were
there had their own set of photos made from the photo lab, some were
pretty photogenic.




There are lots of differnt photos of tests at it out on the web; I just
thought that particular one was pretty photogenic.
I'm still trying to figure out if the RV's are glowing from the heat of
their speed from passage through the atmosphere during descent causing
them to glow, or if flares are attached to them to aid tracking.
To evade ABMs, it behooves one to have the RVs come in as fast as possible.
I don't know what speed they were going when they were photographed, but
when they hit the upper atmosphere they are going around 15,000 mph on a
full range ICBM mission.

Pat