[kj] Fresh Fever From The Skies

The Mighty TB planetary at socal.rr.com
Thu Dec 10 18:19:36 EST 2009


The video near the bottom of the article is pretty wild:

http://tinyurl.com/y8ctp7g

This was a test firing of a next generation Bulava missile designed to
deliver nuclear warheads that went wrong. The first two stages worked
normally and apparently one or more of the third stage's (which has a
previous history of failures) reaction control rockets got "stuck" in the
firing position causing the missile to spin wildly out of control through
it's ascent until it was either destroyed by remote control from the ground
or blew apart from the stress. The chemical makeup of the fuel freezing in
the atmosphere coupled with the lighting conditions being just right along
with the angle of the rocket's launch in relation to the area as it spiraled
in perfect widening circles before exploding caused the unique and fairly
long lasting effect.

T.B.



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