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> if these things don't take a half-hour accelerating Ahem, a Trident II missile accelerates to 6km/s in less than 2 min, that’s more than 50g, see [1] “When
by credit_guy 7y ago
> if these things don't take a half-hour accelerating
Ahem, a Trident II missile accelerates to 6km/s in less than 2 min, that’s more than 50g, see [1]
“When the third-stage motor fires, within two minutes of launch, the missile is traveling faster than 20,000 ft/s (6,000 m/s), or 13,600 mph (21,600 km/h) Mach 18.”
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(missile)#Trident_II_(D5)_UGM-133A https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(missile)#Trident_II...