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Mine is the Minuteman II ICBM from the late 60's. My father launched one, as a test, but he didn't know it was a test at the time. They got orders, they launche
by cronix 5y ago
Mine is the Minuteman II ICBM from the late 60's. My father launched one, as a test, but he didn't know it was a test at the time. They got orders, they launched. I have a beautiful large color photo of the one he launched coming out of the ground, and the key he turned mounted on a USAF plaque. The teeth were filed off though. He said the beginning of the movie War Games (missile silo scene) was the most accurate depiction of his job that he'd seen.
- nix23 5y agoMaverick and Exocet for me...well and the R-36M, but that one is just a bit too terrifying.
- oxfeed65261 5y agoI have no favorite missle—maybe the Phoenix if I were pressed—but I do have a scary-nightmare-clown missle, and it is the Exocet.
- numpad0 5y agoWhy do all the coolest missiles has its own GRAU index number? R-36’s ploop pow pow pow is too Gundam, and so is P-800 Onyx/BrahMos, with its VLS launch and RCS tipover followed by IRR transition. It sounds cool already just sprinkling these TLAs.
- alangibson 5y agoR-36M aka SS-18 Satan. The name says it all.