Awsome view
 

Wow, I think his engine is on fire! :88)

Nice view. :yep:

wow thats cool

One really cool desktop candidate :o

^^ I second that. Very cool pic. :DL

That IS awesome! :rock:

will a ballistic missile short or medium range be trailing similar amount of smoke? :hmmm:

Probably a little bit less I'd say Castout because a shuttle launch has two booster rockets whereas an ICBM, IRBM or TBM would only be one rocket, but not much I'd have thought.

Here's a Minuteman III going up for comparison:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/icbm/mm3-launch.jpg

I have witnessed a shuttle launch a couple of times and by far aside from the sound is the towering colums of smoke.

Its as if god himself was pulling a string of smoke out of the ground.

Are those Mudhens on CAP?

SAM Launch! SAM Launch!

:ping:

Chaff, Flare, Chaff, Flare, Chaff, Flare


MDS failure...ECM failure...Right engine fire...Left engine fire...Warning Warning...RWR failure...Pull up...Pull up...

Thanks for the insight but that's to me still a lot of smoke :DL

ASAT Launch ASAT Launch!! :O:

:yep: It's a lot of thrust. Quite ironic considering the actual payload is not much bigger than a car, heck, one single MIRV warhead in the 300-400 kiloton region is about the height of a man. Still, have to get it up into the optimum re-entry position.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/W87clr.jpg
W87 warheads

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/...mages/MIRV.jpg
MIRV warheads on final phase vehicle

One ICBM, multiple targets....Oh, the things we think of to kill each other with. :damn: