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That's nothing, the Sprint Missile was able to do 100G acceleration. That's 0-Mach 10 in 5s. So fast air friction made it glow white hot instantly. That what yo
by twistedpair 13y ago
That's nothing, the Sprint Missile was able to do 100G acceleration. That's 0-Mach 10 in 5s. So fast air friction made it glow white hot instantly. That what you can do with no human on board.
http://www.nuclearabms.info/Sprint.html http://www.nuclearabms.info/Sprint.html
- themodelplumber 13y agoIs there any imagery or video available that shows the white-hot glow happening?
- njharman 13y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA
- themodelplumber 13y agoI see a bunch of dark missiles. Where is the glowing white one?
- serf 13y agoI thought that was cool until I read about the hibex at the bottom of that same page. "However, it was literally a last ditch missile and was designed to intercept an incoming RV at less than 6,100m (20,000ft) altitude. At that altitude, the incoming RV would be traveling at around 3,000m/sec (10,000ft/sec) so a very fast reaction time was essential to insure interception. In fact, HiBEX was designed to have exited from its silo within 1/4 second and it accelerated at over 400g."
- twistedpair 13y agoNote though that "interception" was a nuclear warhead (neutron bomb). It would still be all out nuclear war, but you'd rather set off a small nuke a few miles from the silos than have the incoming 25MT beast hit the base.