Posted on 07/23/2015 4:41:18 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I work for Raytheon and we make a lot of great missiles. I’m sure we’ll get to the reason / source of the failure.
This ^^^
I had a friend that worked for Thiokol back in the day designing solid motor nozzles. He would tell me about solid motors and how they could fail.
I actually thought this is what happened when the Challenger accident happened but I later found out the SRBs used a different type of propellant compound than smaller missiles.
My guess would be that the failure originated in the affirmative-action/equal-opportunity/fags-are-our-friends military.
I'm thinking that the explosion shattered the propellant into eight chunks that created the eight white arcs shown in the photo.
IIRC, the solid-fuel rocket motor on a Standard missile burns its fuel from an inner open cylinder running up the center, out toward the casing. The outer skin of the motor is quite thin since the pressure is largely contained by the unburnt fuel.
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Any Muslim crewmen in the ordnance department?
Cracks in the propellant grain can cause uneven burning, penetration of the case by hot gas, and explosion.
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