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On this picture, are these actually atom bombs, or just fake ones? -- Abdull 14:56, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
It is such a beautiful photo, I must say. User:Banes|Ban]] e s 11:06, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
How long does it take to move from the beginnung of the trace to the inpact? Are there videos of such a reentry?
The RVs enter on about a 20-degree trajectory. It is a night exposure, but it is real. There is no cropping or compositing. The light is ambient. The RVs do fly through clouds. The entry itself is around 10 seconds, but the exposure is longer than that. If you refer to the Peacekeeper page, I talk about the plasma that causes the trail. Cancellier 19:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I thought these kind of things were supposed to be kept secret. I guess i was wrong.
The source link was broken when I tried it. Does anybody have another source? I'd like to confirm this is a real photograph, not an 'artist's impression'. - Crosbiesmith 17:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Does somebody know what the relative distance is between the impact points on the ground? -- sys2074 13:10, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I believe there is an inconsistency with two different captions of this image on two separate pages. The first page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_fire_exercise#Other_types the caption says the explosion power is twenty-five times that of a Little Boy But then, on the LGM-118 Peacekeeper page the caption says only twenty times the power. Does anyone know for sure. I would guess it would be only twenty times.
According to the Peacekeeper page: The Peacekeeper was a MIRVed missile; the MX could carry up to 10 re-entry vehicles, each armed with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead/MK-21 RVs (twenty times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II).
According to the Little Boy page: Approximately 600 milligrams of mass were converted into energy. It exploded with a destructive power equivalent to between 13 and 18 kilotons of TNT.
Have further details been discovered, such as name, date and program of the test or if there was any payload on those projectiles (subsequently detonated), etc.? 91.11.212.195 ( talk) 17:58, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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On this picture, are these actually atom bombs, or just fake ones? -- Abdull 14:56, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
It is such a beautiful photo, I must say. User:Banes|Ban]] e s 11:06, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
How long does it take to move from the beginnung of the trace to the inpact? Are there videos of such a reentry?
The RVs enter on about a 20-degree trajectory. It is a night exposure, but it is real. There is no cropping or compositing. The light is ambient. The RVs do fly through clouds. The entry itself is around 10 seconds, but the exposure is longer than that. If you refer to the Peacekeeper page, I talk about the plasma that causes the trail. Cancellier 19:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I thought these kind of things were supposed to be kept secret. I guess i was wrong.
The source link was broken when I tried it. Does anybody have another source? I'd like to confirm this is a real photograph, not an 'artist's impression'. - Crosbiesmith 17:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Does somebody know what the relative distance is between the impact points on the ground? -- sys2074 13:10, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I believe there is an inconsistency with two different captions of this image on two separate pages. The first page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_fire_exercise#Other_types the caption says the explosion power is twenty-five times that of a Little Boy But then, on the LGM-118 Peacekeeper page the caption says only twenty times the power. Does anyone know for sure. I would guess it would be only twenty times.
According to the Peacekeeper page: The Peacekeeper was a MIRVed missile; the MX could carry up to 10 re-entry vehicles, each armed with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead/MK-21 RVs (twenty times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II).
According to the Little Boy page: Approximately 600 milligrams of mass were converted into energy. It exploded with a destructive power equivalent to between 13 and 18 kilotons of TNT.
Have further details been discovered, such as name, date and program of the test or if there was any payload on those projectiles (subsequently detonated), etc.? 91.11.212.195 ( talk) 17:58, 8 April 2009 (UTC)