Not HPR, but just cool rocket pictures

FIRE GOOD

Honest John test firing at White Sands.

Plumes near the front are spin motors to help stabilize

and to improve acuracy.

MORE FIRE BETTER

Nike Hercules test at White Sands.

Motors are double base and most of

the "smoke" is really just dust.

WHOOPS

Even the big boys have recovery problems.

All was OK in the end. Things like this did not make the news then.

ULTIMATE CHUCK AND DUCK

Davy Crockett Nuke.

The recoil-less rifle would lob the bomb about 1.5 miles and then BOOM.

You are inside the blast zone.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

Bad day at the Cape. This was an unmanned test flight of the Mercury Redstone, note the tanks are full and venting. The escape tower fired by an electrical problem.

FAST

A Sprint missile test launch at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, October 10, 1967

Thirty Spartan and approximately 60 nuclear-armed Sprint missiles were deployed as part of the Safeguard ABM system in North Dakota in 1975. Employing a low-kiloton yield warhead, the Sprint was designed to intercept incoming Soviet warheads inside the atmosphere as a last-ditch defense against weapons which were not destroyed by the longer range Spartan missile (armed with a 5 megaton warhead). The Spartan was 55 feet (16.8 meters), weighed 28,700 pounds (13,045 kilograms), and had a range of approximately 465 miles (748 kilometers). The Sprint was 27 feet (8.2 meters) long, weighed 7,500 pounds (3,409 kilograms), and had a range of 25 miles (40 kilometers). Both missiles utilized solid propellants.

C-130 firing decoy flares mpg, 2.7 meg

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