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We wrote a post a while back about hot and cold missile launches, and noted that the US, submarines aside, uses hot launches for most missiles, because if the motor of the missile doesn’t start…. well, you’ve got problems. Like this:
We wrote a post a while back about hot and cold missile launches, and noted that the US, submarines aside, uses hot launches for most missiles, because if the motor of the missile doesn’t start…. well, you’ve got problems. Like this:
Wow, glad I’m not the poor SOB that has to blow that in place. Although it’d be cool to watch it go, don’t think I’d want to be the guy placing the charges.
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I had that very thought myself. For our other readers, Desert Tortoise is a commenter at Commander Salamander’s blog who thinks the S-300 makes airspace inviolable.
It IS a very formidable system. But it isn’t perfect. I’ll say this, though, BadgerBuddy. The S-300 is actually a family of missiles, with quite varying characteristics, and as best I can tell, this is one of the early variants.
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Au contraire. He would tell us that is the variant for shooting down taxiing aircraft, so that you aren’t even safe on the ground!!!
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The other handy trick is to put the launch tube off-axis so if the bird’s motor fails to ignite, it falls AWAY from the launcher.
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