Missile launch from White Sands

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Missile launch from White Sands

#1 Postby azsnowman » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:37 pm

About 3x's a year we get a missle fire from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, early morning launches and this is resulting contrail.......now this particular launch we heard was a new weapon used to seek, kill, destroy and basiclly "clean up" a bio or nuclear warhead.......... :eek:

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#2 Postby azsnowman » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:40 pm

BTW....this was at 0445 a.m.
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#3 Postby Regit » Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:48 pm

Great pic. Reminds me of one of Bugs Bunny's tunnels.
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#4 Postby WindRunner » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:08 am

Well, that definately makes me feel good about the quality of our guidance systems. :roll:


Neat picture though - have you ever actually seen the missile, or is it always just the contrail?
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