[editor-surveyor]

> “From a missile that had a longer powered flight phase and, therefore, because of the time it was under direct observation, a slower air speed than any other known missile”

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More low grade propaganda?

There is nothing about the televised video that would yield any power or velocity info, because it was shot after the fact, not during flight.
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[aruanan]

There is nothing about the televised video that would yield any power or velocity info, because it was shot after the fact, not during flight.

Shot "after the fact"? Ha ha ha. Come on, think just a little bit: if the trail being left was not a jet contrail, then it was a trail left by rocket combustion. That's not "after the fact." That's during flight. If it had been filmed over a period of ten minutes, then certain things follow:

1. That would be between 2 and 3 times longer powered flight phase than any ICBM.

2. If it were under observation over that period of time, then the distance it traversed was short enough that it had to have been traveling at a relatively, for missiles, slow velocity. Unless, of course, someone wants to maintain, as some have, that it was a cruise missile, in which case we would be back to relatively slow speeds and a contrail from jet exhaust.