The United States conducted a pending ballistic missile test: it left a strange bubble in the sky

The Americans launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Minuteman III, which was postponed in early April because of the aggravated situation with the DPRK. The rocket was launched at 6: Pacific Morning 27, Colonel Brent MacArthur was appointed in charge of the launch, according to the US Air Force official website.

“Each test launch symbolizes hard work and dedication of those involved in the mission. Conducting such missions is vital to ensure the safe, reliable and efficient operation of the ICBM,” said Colonel Richard Pagliuko, who was also involved in the launch preparation process.

The rocket launched from the airborne base Vandenberg, located in California. It fell into the Pacific Ocean in less than half an hour, four thousand miles from the base in the Atoll Kwajalein, reports The Washington Post, citing representatives of the US Air Force.

This is the first Minuteman III test run on 2013. Every year, several such missiles are launched from Vandenberg, the main goal of the tests is to verify the accuracy weapons and system reliability. RIA "News"reminds that intercontinental ballistic missiles of this type with the 1970 of the year are in service with the US Army, their production was stopped in the 1978 year. Minuteman III is capable of hitting a target within 12 radius thousands of kilometers. In total, the US military has 450 of such missiles.

The rocket left a strange halo in the form of a bubble spreading in the sky

A few hours after launch, an article by Phil Plate appeared in the Slate online edition, which reported that the rocket had left a bright halo in the form of a blistering bubble. The journalist was told this by his acquaintance Adam Draginda, who works at an observatory to observe the weather conditions, located in Hawaii. It was the cameras of this observatory that fixed the bubble.

The journalist immediately guessed what was happening: in June 2011, he wrote a note about the same phenomenon, then the halo also left a rocket of this type. Minuteman III - a three-stage rocket, the last stage of which is equipped with holes. When the rocket enters the desired trajectory, the holes open and the remaining fuel is ejected through them. The speed of the ejection and movement of the rocket is so great that a halo is formed in the sky, spreading a bubble in the sky, while its edges are brighter than the core.

Comments

[pot-bellied]

so what does all this mean? what does it mean?

[Burbulator]

This suggests that nothing is rusted.

[Ataman]

ballistic missiles of this type have been in service with the U.S. Army since 1970, their production was stopped in 1978
In addition, in 2010, the United States abandoned its modernization program. They do not produce new ones (unlike Trident 2 for submarines).
In fact, 40 years for such a technique is age. That all the same took off, suggests that most of the time was not exposed to radiation, i.e. It was without warheads, and the third stage (breeding, in contrast to the first two solid fuel) was not long filled with highly toxic fuel.
In general, everything suggests that they are not tested, but disposed of. And along the way they are trying to show "Kuzkin's mother".
There was already an article about discipline at the US missile base. There, the military themselves have not considered themselves forces of constant combat readiness for a long time.
It can be concluded that the United States is gradually abandoning the land component of strategic nuclear forces and is concentrating on the remnants of strategic nuclear submarines, and the main focus is on cruise missiles based on URO destroyers.

[evgenii67]

Hello everyone! So I think that this "bubble" is normal for a rocket of this type, but a "bubble" in the American economy ..... who would bring a needle, maybe China?

[w.ebdo.g]

"Each test launch symbolizes the hard work and dedication of those who participate in the mission" - why are they tired there, digging trenches?
and selflessness has to do with it, they, that they attack the bayonet every day?)))
so they’re sitting only at computers with big masters, but in a real bayonet, there’s NO ONE more terrible than the Russians ... so the Japanese thought, and not only)))

[bulvas]

the only problem is to reach the computer with a bayonet

[il grand casino]

Hmm ... it's better when you look at the enemy from the tank or from the cockpit than with a bayonet in the field)))

[Geisenberg]

Quote: pot-bellied

so what does all this mean? what does it mean?

They’re fooling us. Distract from the fact that the minuteman launched. We honestly do not care that someone farted at the American tsupu, we do not care that they are firing rockets ...

[Speedy]

Gases are vented through holes - they are the masters ...

[Volkhov]

Quote: pot-bellied

so what does all this mean? what does it mean?

Speaks about the pre-catastrophic period and the "reverse current" in the lithosphere - California served as a cathode and released a portion of electrons into the ionosphere, which formed a visual "bubble" upon divergence.
An article for tadpoles, others can discuss "NATO confrontation".

[Volkhov]

The second option is a shot of an X-ray laser from orbit, the center of the bubble is not visible at first, if there is a bright point, and then a "bubble" - then a laser, and the rocket was a training target.

[w.ebdo.g]

this indicates (in the video presented) that the orientation micromotor has triggered.
threw a stream of compressed nitrogen into space to obtain the desired impulse ...
but this video says nothing more)))

REJECTIVE ORIENTATION ENGINE - A common view will execute. organ orientation systems KLA. As R.D.O. micro-rocket engines are used - LRE, RDTT, RD, working on compressed gas (pneumatic RD), and other R.D.O. set on the SC so that the lines of action of their rods do not pass through the center of mass of the SC, but at certain distances from it; thanks to the presence of these shoulders. rods during the work of R.D.O. moments arise that change the angular position of the spacecraft. The number of RDOs needed for the triaxial orientation of the spacecraft varies from 6 to 12; in the latter case, the control moment relative to each axis of the apparatus is created simultaneously. the inclusion of two R.D.O. The flow rate of the working fluid per unit of time (hour, day) - an important indicator of the orientation system; it determines, for a given supply of the working fluid, the operating time of the system, and therefore the time of effective use of the entire spacecraft. The flow rate of the working fluid during the work of R.D.O. depends, in addition to the specific impulse, also on the operating mode (see Pulse mode) and the magnitude of the link arms, therefore placed in places farthest from the center of mass of the spacecraft

[JonnyT]

bastards spoil the environment!

[Dangerous]

It will be cool if Greenpeace conducts an audit and closes all the tests and launches of these missiles

[neri73-r]

Greenpeace does not conduct checks against the owners, it is prohibited !!! Greenpeace is a mechanism of unfair competition!

[scrack]

We have a prominent environmentalist Chirikov, so let him go there and protest against launches of ICBMs as sources of dirt for the atmosphere

[s1н7т]

Quote: Dangerous

Greenpeace will check and close all the tests and launches of these missiles

And the 3rd world too!

[igor36]

Quote: Dangerous

It will be cool if Greenpeace conducts an audit and closes all the tests and launches of these missiles

Will Greenpeace close? Amers? And who will contain these Greenpeople?

[USNik]

When the rocket reaches the desired trajectory, the holes open and the remaining fuel is ejected through them.

Eee, like BE, in the minuteman-3 all stages are solid fuel. What is sprayed there? Although, maybe the breeding stage was meant? And so, yes, a speck of nichrome itself what size.

[mabuta]

She fell into the Pacific Ocean later less than half an hourIn four thousand miles from base in Kwajalein Atoll

Not a big calculation: mile -1,852km multiply by 4 000 = 7408km per less than half an hour. It doesn’t grow together here. Lovers at 3,14

ps. This is like ours: -... yes, verst with a hook is not far away. A hook lope? A. Kh.

[ed65b]

The land mile is less than the sea in my 1200m - 1 mile. And in what they consider I do not know.

[crambol]

Land Mile - 1609,3 meters

[Andrey57]

There was not enough spirit for 12,000 km, so solid fuel "through the holes" and blew off

[mark1]

Interestingly, the production of the rocket was completed in 1978 and it is still in service, routine maintenance is being carried out, the technology for recharging solid fuel has been mastered, the control system is being modernized ... and it will be in service until at least 2030. What, one wonders, prevented ours from going the same way and keeping the P-39 and RT-23? Now there would be no questions about both "Sharks" and BZHRK.

[Ghenxnumx]

The question is correct, but it’s been late for 15 years . Yeltsin and Co. were glad to cut everything by agreement with the mustache , but there was not enough capacity.
The government was clearly pro-American, that’s how they caved in every way.
And rocket mines with bunkers flooded and exploded, rather than being mothballed in case you finish kissing your gums until better times

[mark1]

And who did the salute (disposal) with the R-39 missiles? Yeltsin, or what? Of course he was drunk, but he didn’t shoot the missiles. By the way, not everything is lost, there are some "crooked" rumors that there is still something left of the R-39 at the storage bases, if a decent amount, it would be possible to try to restore it.

[leon-iv]

that at the storage bases something else remains from the P-39

there is a problem with the Southern Design Bureau because it is already not Ezalezhnaya. That's all. And we all know how our dear neighbors keep secrets.

[mark1]

As far as I know - R-39 development of Design Bureau named after Makeev (Miass)

[leon-iv]

and weren’t preserved in case the kissing of the gums ended until better times

KO hints that the mine can only be used for a type of missile. Then it is destroyed and will be built in a new place elsewhere. And it’s destroyed because the liquid components of the fuel are poisonous (he’s talking about old types of missiles)

[mark1]

The last case is that an old metal glass is thrown out from under the RS-18 from the silo, a new one is inserted (well, something else is changing), and this is the silo for the RS-24. Before that, there were precedents as well.

[SASCHAmIXEEW]

And now what a .. Jewish. Zionists all over the place .. Russian times, two, and got too big .. All for the collapse of the country ..

[Nitup]

Quote: mark1

What, one wonders, prevented ours from going the same way and keeping the P-39 and RT-23? Now there would be no questions about both "Sharks" and BZHRK.

Our defeat in the Cold War prevented us. Well, or at least a defeat in one of the battles, because until the end they had plans to split the RF into 25-30 small puppet states without nuclear weapons. So the war is not over.

[pa_nik]

Quote: evgenii67

who would bring a "needle", maybe China?

such a needle in China is preparing .. how do you bankruptcy of 22 provinces of China !? Link here: http://voprosik.net/obrushenie-mira-nachnetsya-s-kitaya/. Then no one will seem a little.

Quote: mark1

rocket production completed in 1978

yes, the problem is ... they are still flying

[Captain45]

Russia has created a bottom ballistic missile
21 May 2013, 00: 01 | Army | Alexey Mikhailov
“Skif”, hidden at a depth, will hit enemy ships and ground targets at the right time
Until the end of June, factory tests of the latest Skif ballistic missile, capable of being in standby mode on the sea and ocean bottom and at the right time by command to shoot and hit ground and sea targets, will begin in the White Sea.
As the military department told Izvestia, the missile was developed jointly by the Rubin Central Design Bureau (St. Petersburg) and the Academic Makeev (Miass) State Missile Center, commissioned by the Ministry of Defense.
The official reasons for creating this rocket are not called. The editor of the website MilitaryRussia Dmitry Kornev notes that the laying of such missiles in several sections of the bottom will at the right time hit the strategic goals of the enemy without involving submarines.
- Strategic submarines are vulnerable to enemy anti-submarine systems. It is enough to find the boat - and at the right time, you can easily disrupt the launch of a rocket. And the Skif rocket is almost invisible to the enemy, ”Kornev explained to Izvestia.
At the same time, retired Rear Admiral Vladimir Zakharov noted that if the enemy detects a boat that sets the Scythians to the bottom, they can easily be neutralized.
- If an enemy gets attached to our carrier boat, then there can be no talk of any hidden staging. If the rocket is installed in an open area of ​​the bottom, modern hydroacoustics can easily detect it, so much will depend on the actions of the captain of the carrier submarine, ”Zakharov explained.
Tests of the first rocket are scheduled for late May - mid-June in the White Sea. The missile will be lowered to the bottom by the Sarov submarine, specially converted for the Scythian tests. In the bow of the Sarov, a torpedo tube of increased diameter (about 1 m) and special ballast tanks were installed, which should compensate for the weight of the dropped rocket and help the boat maintain stability.
- In the course of future tests, we will check not only the missile, but also the system of its reloading at sea from ship to boat. If everything goes well, then after the factory tests, Skif will be transferred to the state ones, which will allow the missile to be adopted by the Russian Navy, ”Izvestia’s source explained.
Izvestia confirmed to the Makeev State Rocket Center in Miass that they were working on a product with the Skif index, but did not disclose project details. The Rubin Central Design Bureau refused to comment on plans for further work on the Skif rocket in a timely manner, citing state secrets.
http://izvestia.ru/news/550616#ixzz2U6COVxk6
By the way, at the beginning of last year there was information that the "Sarov" submarine called "losharik" was put on repair. Now it is clear why.

[ed65b]

A losharik seems to be able to dive for 6 km. And there they stick.)))))))

[kostyan77708]

they just stumble or just prepare to replace missiles with a long stumble, who knows ... maybe at one time they also listened to Sakharov ....

[valokordin]

Quote: kostyan77708

they just stumble or just prepare to replace missiles with a long stumble, who knows ... maybe at one time they also listened to Sakharov ....

And you are probably a fan of Sakharov readings, or an admirer of Elena Bonaire's singing.

[Mikhail3]

And you probably don't know what kind of a dove of peace Sakharov really was. For a pleasant pastime, as well as for the mind of filling from the heart, I recommend that you type in a search engine: Oleg Divov "Under Stalin, when there was order in the country." Seriously, you will get a lot of pleasure. Well, about Sakharov, dear friend of progressive humanity, there is also ...

[Mikhail3]

Whoa! Well, now it will begin ... From the middle of summer, "Sarov" will begin to spread across the world ocean from side to side. What, you say, do American submarines have? And the ships? We'll have to check ALL the routes of our boats. Everything, absolutely everything, the movements of our warships. And not just go after. It will be necessary to search, dive, trawl ... rush with hatching eyes, like a crazy dog. Arms race? This game can be played not only with one goal. Budget sequestration again ...
Our first priority is a convincing container with a super-paired self-destruction system. So no octopus! And sort it out guys. There was a rocket or a simulator package ... I have not heard such great news for a long time ...

[Volkhov]

Quote: Captain45

By the way, at the beginning of last year there was information that the "Sarov" submarine called "losharik" was put on repair. Now it is clear why.

Sarov was not Losharik at all, and he shook it so that the repair moved to disassembling and moving the equipment to another bathyscaphe, a smaller one, unfinished in the 90s.
Question why superbombs at the bottom of the White Sea and the principle of symmetry of the answer is not interesting?

[Captain45]

Quote: Volkhov

Sarov is not at all Losharik,

Well then, it means that not only I was mistaken, but the correspondents of the Zvezda TV channel on which 3-4 days ago there was a program about the Sarov submarine and the correspondent said that she was affectionately called a "losharik" for the design of a solid body, which consists of several spheres - balls, which allows her to dive to a depth of 6000 meters. By the way, there was an article about "Sarov" on VO, see for yourself.

[955535]

Quote: Captain45

Submarine "Sarov" called "losharik" was put for repair.

"Sarov" is "Sarov", and Losharik is a completely different ship.

[pa_nik]

To this topic... "In turn, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, speaking at the conference, said that the Ministry of Defense has developed a system for neutralizing missile defense." A set of military-technical measures aimed at neutralizing the possible negative impact of the US global missile defense system on the potential of Russian nuclear forces has been developed, and we We do not hide it, "the general reported."

[mabuta]

pa_nik

To this topic..

It’s good to hear such news, for lunch digestion.

[MG42]

previous launch of the LGM-30

comp simulation MMIII - LGM-30

Reliable enough rocket, despite its age.

[Denis]

Each test run symbolizes the hard work and dedication of those involved in the mission.

It’s about their own people, what are they so worried about by the DPRK tests?
This is certainly a preoccupied herd ...

[gregor6549]

The meaning of the article is quite clear. The United States conducted another test of its ballistic missile in which unspent fuel is discharged at such an altitude where it is dangerous, if it is (theoretically), then much less than thousands of metallic and non-metallic fragments of various satellites and rockets launched into space by all over the past decades, who are not lazy, and are still surfing the Bolshoi Theater at different heights.
What is not entirely clear is the comments of some highly preoccupied commentators. And that Russia is not testing its missiles of the same and other classes?
Conducts, quite often, and it would be strange and stupid if she didn’t.
Rumors about the premature demise of the US economy are also somewhat exaggerated, especially since this economy is recovering, albeit slowly. In any case, let those inhabitants of the barracks where Obama live have a headache about her. They themselves chose him "to spite everyone", let them themselves suffer with him.
And about the tricks with the missiles disguised at the bottom of the sea, in railway and sea containers. What will this give besides a headache to themselves? After all, a massive launch of any intercontinental ballistic missiles (and of medium-range ones too) will be immediately detected by the opponent, after which an equally massive retaliatory strike will follow and there will be no one to comment on such articles. Really all the previous history with geography and various "wunderwaffe" taught nobody and anything? It's sad if that's the case. Although, who is now interested in recent history. Everyone wants to get into a new adventure with their own z..su, sorry, head.

PS I will add that there is something to detect such launches. There are sensors on geostationary satellites, and over-horizon super-long-wave radars, and ground-based and marine-based radar PKOs with phrased antenna arrays and much more. If someone hopes that the satellites can be knocked down before, then only young men have such hopes. And therefore, the game of hide and seek will not work here, no matter what side it is conducted

[Old skeptic]

Dear, the rockets are at the bottom for a guaranteed retaliatory strike, so that the adversary does not rely too much on his missile defense system and thinks ten times before reaching out his bony little hands to different red buttons. And for a retaliatory strike, it doesn't matter if the launch was detected or not, all the same, the world has already plunged into the "fiery hyena."

[Vtel]

Since 1970, intercontinental ballistic missiles of this type have been in service with the U.S. Army; their production was stopped in 1978.

Here are the enemies! And entom Obama from the barracks recently proposed GDP to reduce our missiles. Interestingly obey ali how?

[gregor6549]

Today all this so-called "confrontation" between Obama and the GDP is nothing more than a game for the audience, i.e. "bullshit" and "cardboard fool". Neither the United States nor Russia intend to fight each other. No, because of what and because of whom. And the presence of not sickly accounts, real estate and families of the Russian elite in the "damned West" somehow does not strongly stimulate this elite to cut the branch on which it sits. Although, of course, at meetings of the Duma, this elite jumps out of its pants and knocks its boot on the podium, threatening to climb the West "Kuzkin's mother" and wash their boots in the Indian Ocean. It was already known and how it ended. Therefore, having sworn publicly and exchanged laws such as the "Magnitsky law", GDP and Obama call each other or slap each other on the shoulder at the next forum and wink. Like, how did I put your face on the table, friend Obama? I did it normally, Obama replies, but after all, I didn’t put my face in amber either, friend Volodya. So quits, although there is nothing to divide. But the "braces" to strengthen "patriotism" in each of our countries managed to cast not bad ones. Let the patriots continue to fight among themselves, but only on the Internet

[1c-inform-city]

They conduct tests only if they trace successful launches only 50%. They even had hearings in Congress on this occasion. And this article seems to me to hint that the launch was unsuccessful. 4000 km will not be enough. In general, the rackets are rotten.

[Ivanovich47]

The Americans in their role: the ordinary launch of ICBMs are trying to present as something heroic, supernatural event. At the same time they look like clowns. They are sure that no one except such Americans possesses such technologies.

[shinobi]

Ours are doing it more prudently: they take the decommissioned Satan and launch low-tonnage satellites from Plesetsk to it. And everyone is happy

[Pilat2009]

Each test run symbolizes the hard work and dedication of those involved in the mission.

I wonder what kind of work will be in the case of mass combat launches

[Dr. M2]

Yeltsin and Co. were glad to cut everything by agreement with the mustache, but there wasn’t enough capacity.
The government was clearly pro-American, that’s how they caved in every way.
And rocket mines with bunkers were flooded and exploded, but were not preserved in the event that kissing in the gums ended until better times

I am not in defense of Yeltsin. And not against Putin. But ... Plato is my friend, but truth is more precious.
Now a lot has gone at a normal pace. I do not argue. But in the first two terms of Putin, things were much worse than under EBN. In fact, in the 90s, the strategic potential inherited from the USSR was, on the whole, managed to be preserved. And from 1999-2000 the BEGINNING reduction began. And it continued for a year since 2009-2010. And only since then, from a level that is already incomparable with the USSR, it seems like some kind of rise. I will not say that it is very big.

At EBN, the fleet received 14 nuclear submarines. And a surface missile cruiser with a nuclear power plant (Peter the Great). Under Putin, so far not a single nuclear submarine, well, or one, needs to be clarified.

PS On the last day of 1999, while retiring, Russian President Yeltsin handed over to his successor strategic nuclear forces (SNF), numbering 1084 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and ballistic missiles of submarines (4916) with 81 warheads (warheads), as well as 926 aircraft with 5842 cruise missiles, with a total composition of 2000 charges. During 2007-405, strategic nuclear forces lost 2498 carriers and 440 charges. Namely, 2483 ICBMs and SLBMs were written off from 2007 warheads. In total, by the beginning of 3344, the composition of the strategic nuclear forces was already only 2000 charges. Produced for the period 2007-27 only 1990 missiles (more than three times less than during the "dashing" 160s) and one Tu-1990 (seven times less than in the XNUMXs).
The Yeltsin Air Force Board received up to 100 aircraft (Tu-22M3, Su-24M, Su-27, Su-30, Su-35, MiG-29S, MiG-31B). In 2000-2007, only two new Su-34 aircraft were purchased for military aviation. In total, the Air Force has up to 1700 combat aircraft of various types.

In 1992-1999, the Russian Navy received from industry about 50 warships and boats laid before the collapse of the USSR, including 14 nuclear submarines of a number of projects and one missile cruiser of project 1144 (Peter the Great). Since the year 2000, the entry of new ships into the fleet has fallen sharply.

This is how the objective picture looks like. Not everything is so bad in the "dashing 90s", and not everything is so good now.

PPS Source - an article from Novaya Gazeta, the year since 2008.