[Hoggy]

The below photo is of a Peacekeeper missile system being tested at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The lines shown are the re-entry vehicles -- one Peacekeeper can hold up to 10 nuclear warheads, each independently targeted. Were the warheads armed with a nuclear payload, each would carry with it the explosive power of twenty-five Hiroshima-sized weapons.


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[Lee]

What do you mean by re-entry vehicles?
They look like lazers to me.

Is a stunning if not intriguing (sp?) pic though.

 

[Hoggy]

i guess that means the casing that burns away when coming back in from the stratosphere! p.s. they are moving at 4000+MPH

as for intriguing the funniest thing is the name of em, PEACE KEEPER MISSILES yeah, they'll keep the peace alright!

 

[Lee]

Surely there would be impacts then?

 

[Hoggy]

As far as I know the tests are fired into a lake / the sea so over the distance the impacts cant be seen

 

[LAD VXL]

Looks stunning for something so distructive...

 

[Hoggy]

Yeah, if that was real it'd be goodbye planet earth!

 

[dearing5]

whats firing them? or that were they land looks weird to me

 

[Hoggy]

thats landing, as for firing, no idea!

 

[dearing5]

just looks strange because there all equal spaces apart lol, lovely photo though, might chop my car to use this as the back ground!

 

[Jonny]

i want to set one off haha .
there is a certain place it would be visiting . cool picture

 

[Jonny]

who owns those rockets . which country

 

[Lee]

US from what I read on Wikipedia

 

[LAD VXL]

US from what I read on Wikipedia

US or U.S. ?

 

[dearing5]

im guessing u.s. they like blowing up there own

 

[Hoggy]

america

 

[Lee]

Yep U.S.

 

[spectab16]

f**k me.. id b runnin?

 

[Stuart]

Looks like something out of Starwars :laugh: Nice picture though !