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Monday, April 7, 2025

MIRV

Couple of scary photos I came across yesterday.

Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle (MIRV) hitting their targets during a ICBM test as seen from a P-3 Orion

Testing of the Peacekeeper reentry vehicles: all eight (of a possible ten) were fired from only one missile. Each line shows the path of an individual warhead captured on reentry via long-exposure photography.

I suspect the 'long-exposure' was no more than a few seconds. I mean these warheads are coming in a super-, maybe even hyper-, sonic speeds.


2 comments:

  1. Pretty good chance I made the targeting tapes for that Peacekeeper test launch.

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