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To: ExNewsExSpook

How do those missiles fly with those weird egg crate fins against the flow?


12 posted on 10/13/2016 8:22:44 AM PDT by IDFbunny
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To: IDFbunny

How do those missiles fly with those weird egg crate fins against the flow?

Those are supersonic steering veins, Space x uses the same thing (just bigger) on the Falcon 9 to steer it back to landing

Watch ‘em work here ...

https://youtu.be/DgLBIdVg3EM


14 posted on 10/13/2016 10:01:30 AM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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